"Rocky Coast in Moonlight," 1830. Artist Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (Austria).

Largely self-taught, he taught drawing at Viennese schools from 1797. In 1815, he was elected to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught from 1816 (his students included Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller).

Schödlberger's style was significantly influenced by his copying of paintings by Claude Lorrain and Jacob van Ruisdael, as well as his Italian journey of 1817-18, which finally shaped him as a landscape painter, inclined to depict highly idealized landscapes.

These landscapes enjoyed great success, including with his royal patrons, Francis II and Ludwig of Bavaria