Portrait of the Emperor Franz I (1708-1765), three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered blue suit, with the Riband and Badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, before a chair, the Imperial Regalia on a table beside him

Working in Vienna by 1716, the artist was appointed court painter by the Emperor Charles VI in 1735, which position he retained under the Empress Maria-Theresa. His reputation was clearly established by 1728, when he painted the heads of Charles VI and Graf Althan in a picture by Solimena of the Emperor receiving an inventory of the picture gallery in Vienna. There is a portrait of the artist by Maerten van Mytens the Younger in the Brukenthalmuseum, Hermannstadt (no. 744).