Clara von Wille

In 1859, she married the landscape and genre painter, August von Wille.

[1] She was a private student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Ludwig Knaus.

Later, she studied with the famous French animal painter, Rosa Bonheur.

Her first exhibited painting was "Resting Hunting Dogs", shown at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen [de] in 1857.

Several of her works were purchased for a lottery, conducted by the Zentral-Dombau-Verein zu Köln, to raise money for completing the construction of Cologne Cathedral.