Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest village of Menzenschwand. In 1818, he left for Freiburg/Breisgau to study and practice graphics for some five years with Karl Ludwig Schuler (1785-1852); he worked at Herder, the famous publishing house. In 1823, he moved to Munich, where he earned his living as a lithographer and portraitist until he was admitted to the Munich Academy. In ad