After two initial years of apprenticeship in Wuerzburg Joseph Karl Stieler went to Vienna in 1800. With the local development under Henry Füger of 1800, Stieler already received numerous commissions for portraits of the Eastern European nobility. The years 1807-08 Stieler spent in Paris. Here he got the key for his future work impulses led by David's pupil François Gérard. From 1809, he spent several years in Italy. After several years of residence in Vienna, where he, on behalf of the Bavarian King, portrayed Emperor Franz and Empress. Under Louis I, Joseph was appointed court painter. He was overwhelmed with orders of kings and emperors. One of his works, the portrait of his fourth daughter from his first marriage "Ottilie Stiel1. (1918 Graphic Collection Munich, Inv: 207. See From Hare 1998, p 143, Cat 238, fig..)...