Karl von Kügelgen

Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen (6 February 1772, in Bacharach am Rhein – 9 January 1832 [O.S.

28 December 1831], in Tallinn),[1] also known as Carl Ferdinand von Kügelgen was a landscape and history painter, a Russian court and cabinet painter in St. Petersburg, a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His twin brother Gerhard von Kügelgen was active as a portrait and history painter in Dresden.

In 1791 he and his brother received a scholarship to Rome from the Elector of Bonn Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria.

In 1807, he married Emilie Zoege von Manteuffel (1788-1835), the sister of Gerhard's wife, Helene.