ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Lord Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (c. 1760) Oil on canvas (96 x 74 cm) Dunham Massey Hall, England (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") As it is well known, Mengs and Batoni were the undisputed master-portraitists of their time. Every aristocratic British …
Category: Austrian Artists
An English Diplomat
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728=1779) Louis de Visme (1762-67) Oil on canvas (129 x 83 cm) Christ Church College, Oxford (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Another example of Mengs' excellence as a portraitist. The portrait must have been painted between 1762 and 1767, the years when de …
An Irish Gentleman
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1759) William Burton Conyngham Pastel on paper (65 x 48.5 cm) Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Pastel was a very popular medium among artists in the XVIII century. Mengs had made his name as a pastelist in Dresden, …
The Marquess of Monthermer
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) John Brudenell-Montague, later Marquess of Monthermer (1758) Oil on canvas (244 x 171 cm) The Duke of Buccleuch (To enlarge the image, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") John Lord Brudenell (1735-1770), who wore the title of Marquess of Monthermer from 1766, was the only son of …
Anton Raphael Mengs
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Self-portrait (1774) Oil on canvas (73.5 x 56 cm) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Mengs was described by his contemporary Johann Winckelmann as "the greatest artist of his time and perhaps of succeeding times, reborn like a …
Sir Robert Clive
ANTON VON MARON (1713-1808) Portrait of Sir Robert Clive (1766) Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The first picture was scanned by me from the book "Settecento: L´Europe a Rome", catalogue of the exhibition …
Johann Winckelmann
ANTON VON MARON Portrait of Johann Winckelmann (1768) Oil on canvas (136 x 100 cm) Schlossmuseum, Weimar To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it in a new tab This is von Maron's finest portrait, a work of art that truly deserves the title of a masterpiece. Painted a few months before Winckelmann's …
Old Masters 