Anton Seitz, at the age of 16, apprenticed with the engraver Friedrich Wagner in Nuremberg. There he later attended art school and studied under Albert Christoph Reindel and August von Kreling. In 1850 he moved to Munich where he became an assistant to the genre painter Gisbert Flüggen.

Through the Munich Academy, where he taught, he became acquainted with the Munich school and soon gained his reputation as a genre painter. In 1876 he was appointed honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts. Seitz's oeuvre comprises mainly of scenes which depict rural life in an often slightly humorous manner. Already during his lifetime his paintings were highly popular and sought-after.