Luigi Pichler (Born January 31, 1773, in Rome; Died March 13, 1854, ibid.) was a German-Italian artist in engraved gems.
Son of Anton Pichler and half-brother and student of Giovanni Pichler, Luigi was an appentice to his greatly renowned 39-year older brother and painter Domenico de Angelis[1]. He travelled to Vienna, where he, in 1818, was made professor of gem-engraving at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts[1], and where he, working for Francis I, created replicas of some of the most famous gems in Austria as part of the Vienna Cabinet[2], a gift for Pope Pius VII. His works are almost exclusively intaglio, and he created many copies of his brother's and father's work[2]. In 1850 he turned back to Rome, where he died in 1854.
His works include a head of Ajax, the gods Apollo, Mars, Venus, Cupid, and Psyche, a head of Julius Cæsar; as well as two heads of Jesus.[2]