Johann Gotthard von Müller

He prepared himself for the church, but attended the academy of fine arts as well and studied under the court painter Guibal.

[1] In 1776, Duke Charles recalled him to Stuttgart, where he taught for nine years, and whence he was summoned to Paris to engrave a portrait of Louis XVI, after Joseph Duplessis.

He engraved thirty-three plates in all, of which, besides those mentioned, the best are: “Madonna della Seggiola,” after Raphael; “Saint Catharine with Two Angels,” after Leonardo da Vinci; “Schiller,” after the portrait by Anton Graff; and “Saint Cecilia,” after Domenichino.

After preparing in Rome for the engraving of Raphael's “Madonna di San Sisto,” he devoted the remainder of his life to that masterpiece.

In 1814 he was appointed professor in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but his health being impaired by overwork, he retired.