Portrait Chile
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."
Carl Wilhelm Alexander Simon was a German Romantic painter who painted portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings. At the end of his life he emigrated to Chile, where his interest in naturalism and scientific illustration led him to make many drawings of local plants, landscapes, jungles, and villages.