Brief Biography-Martin Knoller was born in Steinach, Tyrol, Austria in 1725. His father, an artist, tutored him, and in 1745, the painter Paul Troger took him under his instruction in Vienna. In Rome, he became a disciple of Raphael Mengs, and he progressed to Court Painter in Milan in 1756. Finally, he advanced to Professor at the Brera Academy in 1760. The Austrian ambassador to Milan, Count Firmian, was one of his most noted patrons. Knoller was a painter of frescoes and oils, more skilled at frescoes. He died in Milan in 1804.