ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Baron Leonard Klinckowström (1758) Oil on canvas (90 x 70 cm) Synebrichoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland To enlarge the image, click on it and "Open in a new window" Thure Leonard Klinckowström (1735 - 1821) was a Swedish baron, Chief Marshal and President of the Court of Wismar (named after the city …
Tag: 18th century painting
A Welsh Diplomat
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1757) Oil on canvas: 110 x 83 cm Warsaw, National Museum. To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it in a new tab. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-1759) was already a well-known and highly-regarded poet, writer and satirist when he decided to embark on a …
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 …
Old Masters 