After Anton Graff (1736-1813) Miniature Portrait Frederick II of Prussia

Fine Art : Portrait Miniatures

 

After Anton Graff (1736-1813); Miniature Portrait Frederick II of Prussia; c.1800; watercolour on ivory; Order of The Black Eagle on blue uniform coat with red collar and silver buttons; 7.5 x 5.5cm (3 x 2.25ins) ; bronze pendant frame

Bears marked similarities with the Anton Graff portrait at Schloss Charlottenburg, but much less severe in its portrayal. Graff is recorded as having produced several copies of this portrait as well as having painted several portrait miniatures. Whether this miniature is by his hand, we do not know.

Condition: excellent, colours fresh, no defects.

Biography of Anton Graff (November 18, 1736 - June 22, 1813) (source: Wikipedia): Graff was an eminent Swiss-German portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist and Frederick the Great.

Graff was born as the son of a craftsman in Winterthur. There and in Augsburg he learned to paint. In 1766 he was appointed a painter and lecturer at the Dresden Art Academy. In his later years he turned to painting landscapes. He died in Dresden at the age of 76.

Graff was one of the most important painters of his time. Some 2000 of his works survive. Many are displayed at the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt and at the Städtische Galerie in Dresden.

Item ID: RL-0390

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