Carl Adolf Senff

He was the thirteenth and youngest child of Carl Friedrich Senff [de], a Consistorial Councilor at the Church of St. Moritz, and his wife, Rosina Dorothea née Litzmann.

Leis was impressed and sent some to the artist, Gerhard von Kügelgen, of Dresden, whose children were attending school in Leipzig.

In 1816, after a brief period as a volunteer in an infantry unit in France, he used some of his inheritance to travel; visiting Prague, Vienna and Florence before settling in Rome.

He was able to find accommodations at the "Casa Buti", a home for artists whose residents included the famous sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen.

In 1820, the Canon Immanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach commissioned a painting of "Christ and the Canaanite Woman" for the Naumburg Cathedral.