Clara Von Wille
Clara von Wille, ''née'' Clara Maria Alexandra von Böttcher (1838 in Düsseldorf – 15 March 1883, in Düsseldorf) was a German animal painter; associated with the Düsseldorf School. Life and work She was the youngest of four daughters born to the Royal Prussian Hussar, Major Carl Friedrich von Böttcher (1785–1857), and his wife Juliane Wilhelmine Charlotte von Buggenhagen (1797–1871). In 1859, she married the landscape and Genre art, genre painter, August von Wille. Their son, Fritz von Wille, Fritz, also became a well known landscape painter. She was a private student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Ludwig Knaus. Later, she studied with the famous French animal painter, Rosa Bonheur. Her first exhibited painting was "Resting Hunting Dogs", shown at the in 1857.Friedrich Eggers, in: Deutsches Kunstblatt VIII, Nr. 3, 15. Januar 1857, pg.18: "Fräulein von Böttcher trat, wenn wir nicht irren, zum ersten Male mit einem Gemälde an die Öffentlichkeit. Dasselbe stellt ‚ruh ...
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