painter

Painting

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 and engraver.

When Caspar was 16 he went to Rome

Rome

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 and studied there by copying the works of old masters. Following Wilhelm von Schadow’s

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow was a German Romantic painter.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and was the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow....

 advise Caspar went to Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1820. In Berlin he settled down as a freelance artist

Artist

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The privy council of Beuth (German: Geheimrat von Beuth) advised him to specialize in the copper engraving

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 and supported him financially. Therefore Caspar could be Giuseppe Longhi’s and Pietro Anderloni’s student for about four years in Milan

Milan

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In 1826 Caspar returned to Berlin

Berlin

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Soon he was appointed as a librarian of the Berlin University of the Arts.

Works (Sample)

• Saint Barbara (after Giovanni Antonio Beltraffio)

• Thomas von Savoyen (after Anthonis van Dyck)

• Saint Antonius (after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo)

• Nine muses (after Karl Wilhelm Wach)