Sometimes Jožef Jakob Tominc Giuseppe Tominz (sometimes called Jožef Jakob Tominc) (6 July 1790, Gorizia – 22 April 1866, Gradiscutta in Val Vipacco), Italian painter, who lived and worked in the Austrian Empire and in Italy. He was one of the most prominent Italian portraitists of the Biedermeier period. Born in what is now Western Slovenia, the second of 11 children of an Italian ironware dealer, he began his study of painting early, learning from local painters. At 19 he went to Rome, with the support of Archduchess Mariana, a sister of the Austrian Emperor. He soon won awards and recognition and, while still in Rome, he married and would have two sons. He pursued his career, at various times, in Vienna, Trieste, and Ljubljana, but would always return home to Gorizia. After 1850, a gradual loss of sight caused him to need the assistance of his elder son, also an artist. As commissions became less frequent, the family also opened a photography studio to help maintain their standard of living. He died at his Slovenian estate at the age of 75. (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/search?updated-max=2014-10-24T07:00:00-07:00&max-results=10&start=26&by-date=false) undefined

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