Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868)

• Was a German painter.
• Son of the portrait painter Christian Leberecht Vogel.
• Vogel was trained early in life by his father.
• In 1807 he replied to an invitation from Baron von Löwenstern, whose children he had taught in Dresden, to come to Dorpat in Livonia.
• In 1808 he moved to Saint Petersburg, where he set up a studio in the princely.
• From 1813 to 1820 he lived in Rome.
• In Italy he copied a large number of paintings and wall paintings by the old masters.
• Besides religious paintings, landscapes and anatomical studies, Vogel also produced portraits in Rome.
• In 1826 Vogel married Julie Gensiken, a daughter of the writer Wilhelmine Gensicken.
• His wife died on 14 April 1828.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, Self-portrait, 1845.
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