11 Facts About Emilie Linder

Emilie Linder was a Swiss painter and art patron.

Emilie Linder was the daughter of painter Franz Lukas Linder and Anna Maria Dienast; the Linders were an established family of textile manufacturers in Basel.

Emilie Linder was wooed by Franz Xaver von Baader and Clemens Brentano, but did not marry either of them.

Emilie Linder traveled to northern and central Italy in 1825 with Schlotthauer and his wife.

Between 1828 and 1831, Linder lived in Rome and studied Italian paintings.

Emilie Linder became well-known as a painter and as an intellectual hostess of salons.

Emilie Linder mostly painted anonymous devotional pictures and altarpieces, which she gave to destitute churches.

Emilie Linder used her wealth to collect and commission paintings by the Nazarenes and other, lesser-known painters.

Emilie Linder commissioned Schlotthauer to travel to Italy to copy Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in 1834.

Emilie Linder was one of Brentano's main correspondents during his religious seclusion.

In 1847, Emilie Linder donated her entire art collection, including many important Nazarene paintings, to the public art gallery in Basel.