Portraits of the hall of Maria Teresa

Three large paintings hang on the long wall, opposite the wall with windows and a fireplace. They are by Hubert Maurer, a fairly well-known academic painter, who worked at the Viennese court. On the right, Empress Maria Theresa of Spain (1717-1780), an enlightened genius, protects the subjects and strengthens the Academy that resides in the building. On her left, her son Joseph II, who became Emperor in 1765, and who continued to carry out his mother’s enlightened policy; further to the left, her husband Francis I, who became Emperor in 1745, who had already died at the time the portrait was painted.