Johann Martin von Rohden

In the latter year he returned to Rome to study with Joseph Anton Koch; he remained in or near the city for the duration of his time in Italy, save for a trip in 1805 to Sicily.

With Johann Georg von Dillis he was apparently the first German painter to paint outdoors as part of his work.

Though he was older, this practice earned him respect from the younger generation of German landscape painters who came to Rome to work in the early nineteenth century.

In 1826 he was offered the post of chief painter at the court of Hesse, but the relocation was hard on his family, and two years later he was granted permission to return to Rome for good.

There he was known as kind and sociable, helping to form the German Academy and frequently going for hunting trips in the Campagna.