Friedrich Paul Nerly

His father was the German landscape painter, Friedrich von Nerly, with whom he completed his first studies.

He later enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, studying under professors Eugene de Blaas, Federico Moja, and Pompeo Mariano Molmenti.

He visited the principal artistic cities of Germany: Düsseldorf, Weimar, Munich, and Dresden.

In 1868, he traveled to Francia, Austria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, and visited Rome, Naples, and Sicily.

His masterworks included Fishing in the Gulf of Siracusa, bought by the German emperor; I bragozzi dell' Adriatico, bought by the Civic Museum of Danzig; Palermo, veduta, bought by the Duchess of Genoa; Litorale veneto, bought by Revoltella Civic Museum at Trieste; The Lagoon of Venice, property of the Duke of Coburg; and Island of Capri, parte meridionale, which was sold to the Baroness of Friedlander in Berlin.