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Otto Grashof was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a draftsman, engraver, and portrait painter. He also did historical painting, battle-painting, animal studies, and landscape art. Grashof is considered one of the founders of Chilean painting.
Grashof went to St. Petersburg in 1838, where he carried out portrait commissions for the aristocracy, and some of his works ended up in the collection of Emperor Nicholas I. Later he visited Chile as well as Brazil. He held the titles of "painter to the Russian emperor and Brazilian court painter."
Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter, considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in Italy in the mid-19th century.
He showed talent as an artist early on, studying painting in Rome and at the Venice Academy. Arriving in Milan in 1823, he quickly established himself at the center of the intellectual and aristocratic life of the city. Hayez created grandiose paintings of historical subjects with a patriotic context, popular biblical scenes and plots from classical literature. The artist loved political allegories as well. He also painted portraits, subtly reflecting the characters of the people portrayed.
