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He was born in Vienna and was court painter between and He was the son of the gold- and silversmith Franz Amerling and Theresia Kargl. He studied from to at the academy of the arts in Vienna, before journeying to Prague where he studied at the Academy until He spent and in London, where he was influenced by the portrait painter Thomas Lawrence.

Further journeys led him to Paris, where he studied with Horace Vernet, and Rome; he then returned to Vienna, where after he worked for the Austrian court, the aristocracy and middle class. He received the Reichel prize of the academy in Vienna in Amerling spent much time traveling: in and to Italy, to the Netherlands, to Munich, in Rome, in Spain, in England, in Greece, in Scandinavia up to Norway's North Cape and to Egypt and Palestine.

He was married four times: to Antonie Kaltenthaler from until her death in ; from —45 to Katharina Heissler ending in divorce ; from until her death in with Emilie Heinrich; and finally to Maria Nemetschke from until his death. In Amerling was elevated to the nobility and was called Friedrich Ritter von Amerling.

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As one of the most outstanding artists of Vienna he received numerous important men of letters and musicians such as Franz Liszt at home. In he acquired the Gumpendorf castle in Vienna and equipped it after his taste with valuable art treasures. The building was therefore called, in the vernacular, Amerlingschloessl. Apart from numerous other honours, he received the Orden der Eisernen Krone in Upon his death in , a street in Vienna was designated the Amerlingstrasse in his name.

He was buried in the Viennese central cemetery, where he is commemorated with a monument designed by Johannes Benk. The same artist also created the Amerling monument in the Viennese city park, dedicated in In the Austrian post office issued a special stamp on the 60th anniversary of Friedrich von Amerling's death.