JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (1740-1812) Marie-Adélaide de France / Madame Adélaide (1784) Oil on canvas: 135 x 105 cm Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The author of this beautiful portrait was a German called Johann Julius Heintz or Heinse; however, like many of his contemporaries and …
Category: German Artists
Portrait of a Woman
JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (1740-1812) Portrait of a Woman (1781) Canvas 65,5 x 54 cm Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Very little is known about this German portraitist, he has been erroneously confused with his elder brother Johann Ernst Heinsius (1731-1794); the confusion still persists to …
The Gore Family
JOHANN ZOFFANY (1733-1810) The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1775) Oil on canvas (78 x 98 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Of Hungarian and Bohemian origin Johan Zoffany was born in Frankfurt on 13 March 1733. …
An Old Woman
CHRISTIAN SEYBOLD (1690-1768) Portrait of an Old Woman, 1749-50 Oil on copper (37x29 cm) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Until recently this painting had been attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685-1749), a highly successful and slightly older contemporary of Christian …
Old Masters 