Albert de Meuron

His first art lessons came from his father, the landscape painter Maximilien de Meuron.

From 1841 to 1845, he lived in Germany and was a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,[1] where his instructors included Hermann Stilke and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

[3] Upon the recommendation of Léon Berthoud [fr] (1822–1892), a local landscape painter, he went to Paris, where he became one of the first Swiss artists to work in the studios of Charles Gleyre.

There, he spent some summers with the brothers Edouard and Karl Girardet as well as Benjamin Vautier.

From 1888 to 1892, he was a member of the Eidgenössische Kunstkommission [de] (Federal Arts Commission).