Intermission
Still grey, still raining. Too dark for photography. Have some random portraits:
Most of the portraits I've come across by Johann Friedrich Tischbein ("the Liepziger Tischbein") on Wikimedia are fairly standard 18th century portraits; silks and powdered wigs, pretty rose-cheeked ladies and pompous gentlemen - production-line stuff. But a handful of the portraits are just fabulous, full of character.
"The Tischbein family was a German family of artists, originating in Hesse and spanning three generations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tischbein_family.
From school, I remember that Tisch means table, and bein means leg. So that would make the artist Mr Tableleg. It's good that there were several Tischbeins or the table would have fallen over.
Amalie Wolff-Malcolmi (c. 1798-1805).
Cornelia Rijdenius (c.1790-1795).
Nicolas Châtelain (1791). *impertinent whispers about the size of his hat*
Nicolas Châtelain and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein - the model and his painter - both belonged to grand dynasties. Châtelain, the son of a pastor, came from a rich family of booksellers in Rotterdam who had been forced to take refuge in the Pays de Vaud by the Prussian invasion of 1787. A great traveller, he stayed in Italy in the 1790s and made a name for himself with his novels and literary pastiches. Tischbein, known as the ‘Leipziger Tischbein’, belonged to a German family that produced three generations of famous painters. Having trained in Paris and Rome, he turned his back on the ceremonial portrait in favour of a ‘sentimental’ neoclassicism influenced by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (France) and Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney (England). He was the most sought-after portraitist in Germany in the late eighteenth century.
https://www.mcba.ch/en/collection/portrait-de-nicolas-chatelain/
Most of the portraits I've come across by Johann Friedrich Tischbein ("the Liepziger Tischbein") on Wikimedia are fairly standard 18th century portraits; silks and powdered wigs, pretty rose-cheeked ladies and pompous gentlemen - production-line stuff. But a handful of the portraits are just fabulous, full of character.
"The Tischbein family was a German family of artists, originating in Hesse and spanning three generations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tischbein_family.
From school, I remember that Tisch means table, and bein means leg. So that would make the artist Mr Tableleg. It's good that there were several Tischbeins or the table would have fallen over.
Amalie Wolff-Malcolmi (c. 1798-1805).
Cornelia Rijdenius (c.1790-1795).
Nicolas Châtelain (1791). *impertinent whispers about the size of his hat*
Nicolas Châtelain and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein - the model and his painter - both belonged to grand dynasties. Châtelain, the son of a pastor, came from a rich family of booksellers in Rotterdam who had been forced to take refuge in the Pays de Vaud by the Prussian invasion of 1787. A great traveller, he stayed in Italy in the 1790s and made a name for himself with his novels and literary pastiches. Tischbein, known as the ‘Leipziger Tischbein’, belonged to a German family that produced three generations of famous painters. Having trained in Paris and Rome, he turned his back on the ceremonial portrait in favour of a ‘sentimental’ neoclassicism influenced by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (France) and Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney (England). He was the most sought-after portraitist in Germany in the late eighteenth century.
https://www.mcba.ch/en/collection/portrait-de-nicolas-chatelain/