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 …
Tag: Portrait
Father and Son
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of a man and a boy (1618-20) Oil on panel 115 x 82 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to the excellent monography about Anton van Dyck by the American art historian Alfred Moir …
Charles Etienne Jordan
ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757) Portrait of Charles Etienne Jordan (1740) Oil on canvas 145 x 110 cm Huis Doorn, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Antoine Pesne, a nephew of the history painter Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), went to Italy in 1704 after winning the prestigious …
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 …
Gerard Meerman
JEAN-BAPTISTE PERRONEAU (1715-1783) Portrait of Gerard Meerman (c.1761) Pastel on paper 88 x 68 cm Museo Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague To enlarge the image right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" In the 1750s, two of the best portrait painters of the XVIIIth century; Jean-Baptiste Perroneau and the Swiss Jean-Etienne Liotard came to the …
James Caulfeild
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont, later 1st Earl Charlemont (1753-56) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was the portraitist of choice for the young British and Irish men …
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 …
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 …
Samuel Ampzing
FRANS HALS (1582-1666) Samuel Ampzing (c.1630) Oil on copper (16,5 x 12 cm) Private Collection, United States To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it on a new tab "This exquisite portrait, one of three known works that Frans Hals painted on copper, depicts the Haarlem clergyman, poet, and historian Samuel Ampzing (1590–1632) …
Old Masters 