Clara von Wille, ''née'' Clara Maria Alexandra von Böttcher (1838 in

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– 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

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, Major Carl Friedrich von Böttcher (1785–1857), and his wife Juliane Wilhelmine Charlotte von Buggenhagen (1797–1871). In 1859, she married the landscape and

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painter, August von Wille. Their son, Fritz, also became a well known landscape painter. She was a private student of

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and

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. 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 ‚ruhende Jagdhunde am Fuße einer Eiche nebst todtem Wild und Jagdgeräth‘ dar. Drei Hirtenhunde und zwei Dachshunde..." Later, her works were regularly displayed at the and at . Several of her works were purchased for a lottery, conducted by the Zentral-Dombau-Verein zu Köln, to raise money for completing the construction of

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. Many of her most popular paintings were reproduced in illustrated magazines and as wood engravings.

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