1813 – 1865

Swiss painter. He was taught first by his father, the painter and lithographer Samuel Frey (1785-1836). He studied in Paris in the early 1830s, and then in Munich (1834); thanks to the sponsorship of Emilie Lindner, a patron of the arts, he was able to move on to Rome where he specialized in landscape painting (Mountains in the Roman Campagna, Kunstmuseum, Basel) At the end of the 1830s he moved to Naples, travelling to Sicily and to Spain.Show more

1 artwork in collection