Leopold Andreas Ignaz Sonnleithner was an Austrian lawyer and a well-known personality of the Viennese Classical music scene. He was a friend and patron of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Franz
Wilhelm August Rieder
…sheltered from a rainstorm in Schubert's lodgings at the Fruhwirth-Haus (Technikerstrasse 9). Schubert's friends thought it was a very good likeness: Leopold von Sonnleithner called it "the most like him", whilst Josef von Spaun called it "an extraordinarily good likeness". He subsequently painted a number of Schubert's…