[1][3] Orphaned by age fifteen, her grandfather Johann Konrad Dienast-Burckhardt took her in and encouraged her talent for art.

[1][5] Her family friend Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis introduced Linder to many of the artists active in Munich.

[4] While in Italy, Linder befriended Johann Friedrich Overbeck, leader of the Nazarene movement of German Romantic Christian painters.

[2] Linder mostly painted anonymous devotional pictures and altarpieces, which she gave to destitute churches.

[2] Linder used her wealth to collect and commission paintings by the Nazarenes and other, lesser-known painters.

[1][2] She commissioned Schlotthauer to travel to Italy to copy Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in 1834.