Gottfried Seelos was an Austrian painter.
After basic studies at the universities of Verona and Innsbruck 1845–1847 and subsequent law studies 1847–51 in Vienna and Munich, Gottfried Seelos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the landscape painters Johann Novopacky and Joseph Selleny, whose sister Theresia he married in 1886. With Selleny and Novopacky he went on his first study trip to Italy in 1853/54, which was later followed by several more.

Gottfried Seelos received significant support from the Viennese industrialist, politician and patron Nikolaus Dumba , in whose Liezen country estate he regularly stayed in the summer and where the over portals of the music salon, including a view of Lake Wörthersee near Velden , came from him.

In 1930 Seelosgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.