Career
His work is also in the Wallace Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Angeli was born in 1840 in Ödenburg, then part of the Austrian empire, now known as Sopron in Hungary. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and in Munich, before moving back to Vienna in 1862.
From 1870 he travelled between Berlin, London, and Vienna, producing portraits.
His success at society portraiture was partly due to his facility at depicting uniforms, pearls, and other jewels. As well as royalty and politicians, he painted other notable people, such as the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann.
In 1877 Buckingham Palace invited Ulysses South. Grant to have his portrait painted by Angeli.