Moritz Kellerhoven

[citation needed] He was still very young when his father died, so he was placed in the care of his maternal uncle (a clergyman) who lived in Düsseldorf.

[1] He was originally educated with the intent of his joining the clergy too, but he showed an aptitude for art instead and, at the age of seventeen was sent to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Lambert Krahe.

Upon the recommendation of Johann Peter von Langer (an acquaintance from Düsseldorf) he became one of the first professors at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich after its reorganization in 1808.

He remained there as a teacher and manager until his death and earned a reputation as one of Germany's greatest portrait painters.

[3] In his last years he suffered from arthritis and gout, which eventually, in the spring of 1830, afflicted his throat and led to his death.