Portrait of Margaret Urmiller, née Schwab, and Her Daughter

Barthel Beham, younger brother of the printmaker Hans Sebald Beham, painted this Portrait of Margaret Urmiller and Her Daughter around 1525. Beham was one of Munich's leading painters, producing portraits of the Bavarian elite with sharp precision Portraiture flourished during the Renaissance as humanism elevated the individual, with wealthy merchants, rulers, and churchmen commissioning likenesses as symbols of status, piety, and dynastic continuity.

The double portrait shows Beham's precise Bavarian technique with the sharp characterization and detailed costume rendering that made him one of Munich's most sought-after portraitists.