Born in Szczecin (then called Stettin, and part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia), Beyer was initially taught by local painter Petera Schmidta.

[1] In 1805, she moved to Berlin (the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia) with her brother Charles Frederick and studied under the Director of the KPM (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Gottfried Wilhelm Volker.

In 1813, she married the director of the Warsaw lottery John Gottlieb Wilhelm Beyer, converting from the Lutheran faith to Calvinism.

Widowed the next year in 1819, Beyer had to maintain her sons and in 1824 in Warsaw opened a school of painting and drawing for women.

The poet Stanisław Jachowicz honored her memory with the following lines for her obituary: Prosta jak kwiatek, co go malowała/W niebiańskie strojny klejnoty,/Prawda w jej słowie, a w czynach jej – chwała,/W życiu zachęta do cnoty (Simple as a flower, as it painted / W heavenly adorned with jewels, / The truth in her words and her actions - glory, / In the life of an incentive to virtue).