Peter Schwingen

His instructors there included Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.

Soon, he soon received numerous orders from throughout the region; developing his own style of portraits, which included detailed interiors, inspired by Dutch Golden Age paintings.

This combination produced an important record of bourgeois domestic life, in the decade leading up to the revolutions of 1848.

In his later years, he focused on large formats, and earned a considerable income form their sales, which allowed him to maintain a fine apartment for his family.

The Peter-Schwingen-Gesellschaft in Bad Godesberg is dedicated to researching and publishing his works, and he is now considered a major artist of the Düsseldorf school.