Wilhelm Trautschold

{{Short description|German portrait painter (1815-1877)}}

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Wilhelm Trautschold (2 June 1815 – 7 January 1877) was a German portrait painter.

Trautschold was born in Berlin on 2 June 1815.{{cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/78106|title=Explore Wilhelm Trautschold|publisher=RKD|accessdate=8 July 2015}} He was trained at the {{lang|de|Berlin Akademie der Kunste}} and in Düsseldorf. He lived in London from 1860.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07654|title=Person - Wilhelm Trautschold|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=8 July 2015}}

His works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of his paintings of Justus von Liebig was used on a German 100 Reichsmark note in 1935.

He died in Munich on 7 January 1877. He was brother of paleontologist Hermann Trautschold.

File:JLU-Liebig.jpg|Portrait of Justus von Liebig

File:100RM1933AV.jpg|Banknote after the above portrait of Justus von Liebig

File:Trautschold_liebig_laboratorium_1841.png|Trautschold liebig laboratorium (1841)