Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856)

• Was a German painter.
• He spent most of his career in Rome.
• Catel was born at Berlin in 1778.
• He began his artistic career by carving in wood, and then designed book illustrations.
• In 1799 he made ten plates for Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea.
• In 1807 he went to Paris, where he studied oil painting.

• The year 1812 found him at Rome, he connected there with Koch, Overbeck, Schadow, and Cornelius.

• He visited Sicily in company with Prince Golitsuin in 1818.
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