Karl Jakob Theodor Leybold

It was there, at the Academy of Fine Arts, that Karl received his artistic training.

One his father's associates, Eberhard von Wächter, had a major influence on his choice of subject matter and style.

In 1807, thanks to a grant from the art patron and collector, Count Moritz von Fries, he was able to travel to Rome, where he studied and worked until 1814.

Then, after a few more years in Vienna, where he earned his living painting portraits, he returned to Stuttgart in 1821, where he later served as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts (from 1829), and Inspector at the old Staatsgalerie (from 1842).

One of his sisters married the landscape painter, Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf, who had studied with his father.