(1768 - 1826)
Peter Eduard Stroehling was born in 1768 in Düsseldorf. Following a period of working in Paris and Germany, he studied in Italy in the early 1790s. He visited Vienna in 1796 and then spent the next five years in St Petersburg. Stroehling arrived in England around 1804 and established his name as a successful painter of portraits and miniatures, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, British Institution and the Society of British Artists. From 1810 to 1820 he was Historical Painter to the Prince of Wales.
