Friedrich Philipp Reinhold was an Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer.
Reinhold was the son of the portrait painter Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold (1744–1807), father of the painters Franz Xaver Reinhold (1816–1893), Friedrich Reinhold (1814–1881) and Karl Reinhold (1820–1887). His younger brothers were the landscape painter Gustav Reinhold (1798–1849) and the painter and engraver Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold (1788–1825).
From 1797 he studied genre and portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy under Johann Eleazar Zeissig. Here he may have met Caspar David Friedrich, who was staying there at the same time. After completing his studies, he came to Prague, where he painted the curtain of the Estates Theater in 1804.
From 1805 to 1811 Reinhold studied history painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where he met Friedrich Overbeck and other Nazarenes. He spent the years 1811 and 1812 as a portrait painter in Gera, from 1813 he lived in Vienna.
Reinhold initially worked as a portrait and history painter. After 1816 he mainly devoted himself to landscape painting . He also created templates for contemporary historical scenes, working with lithographs from 1810 and with etchings from 1816.