Clara von Rappard

She worked in a wide variety of genres and materials including illustrations, etchings and murals, although she is best known for landscapes and portraits.

She was the only child of Jurist Conrad von Rappard [de] and Albertine Engell (1832–1922) of Mecklenburg, the younger sister of the writer and women's rights activist Juliane Engell-Günther [nl].

Her father also operated a microscopy institute (presumably related to forensics) and was co-owner, with his brother Hermann Gisbert von Rappard (1814–1902), of the Grandhotel Giessbach [de] on Lake Brienz.

From 1868 to 1869, she studied with Dominik Skutecký in Venice, from 1870 to 1871 with Heinrich Dreber in Rome, from 1871 to 1874 with Antonie Volkmar [de] and Carl Steffeck in Berlin and, from 1875 to 1885 in the women's art school operated by Karl Gussow.

Other artists who participated, to a greater or lesser degree, in her education included Adolph von Menzel, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, Arnold Böcklin and Eugène Burnand.