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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Haina 1751 – 1829 Eutin

Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol (1730–1803), in the background the Tomb of Mamia, Pompeii. March 1790

Oil on canvas. 61,5 × 49 cm (24 ¼ × 19 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol (1730–1803), in the background the Tomb of Mamia, Pompeii. March 1790.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 25,000

USD 22,500

 

- 28,100

Sold for:

42,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Oil on canvas. 61,5 × 49 cm (24 ¼ × 19 ¼ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Hermann Mildenberger, Weimar, dated 3 February 2011 as "ein eigenhändiges Werk von J.H.W. Tischbein“ ["a work by the hand of J. H. W. Tischbein"] / Accompanied by a certificate by Claudia Nordhoff, Rome, dated 7 May 2014 as J.H.W. Tischbein. Relined. Framed

Comparable portraits of Frederick Hervey: Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739/40–1808): in der Villa Borghese, 1790, Pastel on paper, 98 x 118 cm, National Trust Ickworth, inv. no. NT851985 / with his granddaughter Lady Caroline Crichton (1779–1856), circa 1790, oil on canvas, 224 x 199 cm, National Gallery of Ireland Dublin, inv. no. NGI.4350 / 1805, oil on canvas, 100 x 74 cm, National Trust Ickworth, inv. no. NT 851764 / Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, 1790, inv. no. NT 851764.

Private collection, Switzerland

Hermann Mildenberger: Tischbein, Pompeji und der „Earl-Bishop“; in: Maren Heun et al..: Kosmos Antike. Zur Rezeption und Transformation antiker Ideen in der Kunst [publication in honour of Dieter Blume], Weimar 2015, p. 143–157, ill. 1 / Claudia Nordhoff: Jakob Philipp Hackert, Briefe (1761–1806), Göttingen 2012, p. 394

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