Caspar Arnold
Born in 1758.
He began his training in 1779 in Cologne with the flower painter Johann Martin Metz. In 1790, he assumed the direction of a drawing school in Cologne.
From 1802 to 1804, he stayed in Paris, where he attended classes at the École des Beaux-Arts together with his pupil Matthias Joseph de Noël. Following this Parisian sojourn, he returned to Cologne. The stages cited link an initial training with a specialist painter, the direction of a local school and a period of study in Paris, followed by a return to Cologne.