|
Johann Georg Ziesenis
|
|
|
|
|
|
Portrait of Stadholder Willem V
Painting ID:: 84853
new25/Johann Georg Ziesenis-849336.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Johann Georg Ziesenis
|
|
(b Copenhagen, 1716; d Hannover, 4 March 1776). German painter of Danish birth. He trained with his father, Johann Georg Ziesenis (1681-1748); he became a German citizen in 1743 and subsequently was appointed court painter to Herzog Christian von Pfalz-Zweibrecken in Zweibrecken and, later, Mannheim. In the early 1750s he overcame his technical shortcomings by studying Flemish art, particularly the work of Rubens and van Dyck. He also introduced a new genre, the private court portrait. His portrait of Karl Philipp Theodor, Kurferst von der Pfalz (1757; Munich, Alte Pin.) is original in its intimate view of a nobleman posed at leisure in casual dress, seated in his private study. |
|
Portrait of Stadholder Willem V |
|
Date ca. 1768-1769
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 141 x 101 cm (55.5 x 39.8 in)
cjr |
|
Related Paintings::.
| Picking Poppies | Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints | Chakoska (mk38) | |
|
|
|
