Jacques Alfred van Muyden

Jacques Alfred van Muyden (22 October 1818, Lausanne - 11 May 1898, Geneva) was a Swiss history, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and a co-founder of the "Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler und Bildhauer [de]".

He was originally self-taught, but his early works were good enough for him to gain entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied with Wilhelm von Kaulbach.

[1] Sick and generally unsuccessful, despite a showing at the Salon in 1846, he returned to Lausanne again in 1848 as the Revolutions began.

Three years later, he was one of the many founding members of the "Gesellschaft der Schweizer Maler und Bildhauer" and served as its Chairman on several occasions.

From 1880 to 1882, he was involved in copyright issues, attempting to establish that the right of reproduction belongs to a work's creator only, not to its owner.