L.A.Bennigsen_by_P.E.Stroehling_(c.1810-15,_Royal_coll.).jpg
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Summary
Peter Edward Stroehling : Levin August, Count Bennigsen (1745-1826) ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q2309952
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Title |
Levin August, Count Bennigsen (1745-1826)
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Description |
Stroehling’s work in the Royal Collection allows us to trace a rare example of continuity between the masters of the Dutch Golden Age and those of the early nineteenth century. Stroehling was brought up in Dusseldorf where a magnificent collection of the polished, classicising and elegant works (often on copper) by artists such as Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722) had been formed by Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (1658-1716). Stroehling worked all over Europe but spend much of the first two decades of the nineteenth century in London; between 1810 and 1820 he was even styled ‘Historical Painter to the Prince of Wales’. Stroehling’s work elsewhere tended to be life-sized portraiture, but the Royal Collection has an important group of small-scale portraits on copper, executed with fine detail and a glossy finish; Joseph Farington perceptively referred to them as ‘painted in a Vanderwerfe manner’. Stroehling’s price for these ‘Cabinet Pictures’ was 200 guineas each, an impressive sum in the period even for a life-sized work.
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Date | circa 1810-1815 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil
on
copper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 18.9 cm (7.4 in); width: 16.1 cm (6.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,18.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,16.1U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
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Source/Photographer | http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/400617/levin-august-count-bennigsen-1745-1826 |
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