Frederik Vermehren, Portrait Of Etatsraad Hans Lytzen Albeck

Frederik Vermehren, Portrait Of Etatsraad Hans Lytzen AlbeckThis fine 19th century portrait by Danish artist Frederik Vermehren (1823 1910) depicts Etatsraad Hans Lytzen Albeck (1832 1918), a wholesaler from Copenhagen. Its dated 1872 when Albeck was 40. Vermehren was a master of detailed portraiture that captured a subjects characteristics. Weve discovered a photograph of Albeck and the likeness is impressive. In the 1870s, gentlemen were encouraged to dress quietly with little in the way of flamboyance. So

He was also an amateur painter and was looking for canvases to practice on

But on this occasion

The best outcome is harmony

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which gives it a three-dimensional quality

The painting is signed/dated in the upper left and housed within its original gilded frame

The first Nabob is listed under ‘John Kemp’s Sett of Blacks’ in a list of ‘His Majesty’s Coach Horses taken July 1st 1784’

Renoir was creating early masterpieces with ‘Bal du Moulin de la Galette’ shown at the third impressionist exposition among others

they reflect the fact that in reality we rarely see an object from one set angle as our perspectives continually change

by German artist

He probably worked quickly with signs of De Hoog’s thinking visible through pentimento