Franz Peter Kymli

There, he was placed under the protection of his fellow German, the engraver Johann Georg Wille[2] He would eventually become the Elector's court painter, and was responsible for purchasing paintings for his Mannheim gallery.

The name of "Mr. Kymli, painter of the Palatine court, rue des Grands Augustins", with the description of the paintings he exhibited, appears in several issues of the magazine News of the Republic of Letters and Arts.

Emperor Joseph II paid a visit to France in 1777, and Kymli painted his portrait, which was produced and distributed as an engraving.

His portrait of Pierre Pomme [de], a doctor from Arles, was engraved by Jean-Charles Le Vasseur and served as the frontispiece for Pomme's work, Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes ou maladies nerveuses vulgairement appelées maux de nerfs, published in Paris in 1782.

He remained in Paris, continued to paint, and took several students; including the engraver, Johann Friedrich Müller, and the miniaturist, Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois.