Louis Krevel

His father, Johann Hilarius Krevel (1776–1846) was an art dealer and portrait painter of some note who experimented with new methods of producing lithographs.

After taking his first art lessons from his father,[1] he studied with Justus Krauskopf [de], a portrait and landscape painter who had a private school in Kassel and was himself a student of Jacques-Louis David.

As a result, he received a commission from the town of Sète to make a copy of a painting by François Gérard, depicting the 1825 coronation of Charles X.

Based on the locations of his showings, he spent most of his time in Baden-Baden but travelled frequently as his commissions dictated.

In 1865, discouraged by the growing popularity of portrait photography, he retired from painting, became withdrawn and moved to a small house in Freiburg im Breisgau.