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    Posted 8 years ago

    kivatinitz
    (342 items)

    More of the big purchase of the last day of 2015: a wonderful miniature in an ormolu frame. In the second picture you can observe the signature a. Daffinger, I suppose it means after Daffinger, or a copy of a famous portrait done by Morita Michael Daffinger. If you open the picture you can observe it is hand painted and that the white accents have a bit of height as they were done with oil and brush. Though, I am not sure if it is not a very well done print with only the clear traces done by hand. I found on the web that a print of 1908 could be purchase at http://www.periodpaper.com/collections/portrait/products/1908-print-crescence-szechenyi-seilern-marianne-austria-original-071059-ins3-084
    I also found other two similar miniatures though ours is much better
    https://auctionata.com/o/105058/miniature-portrait-of-empress-maria-anna-of-austria-c-1840?noredir=1
    http://reggiedarling.blogspot.com.ar/2011/05/is-she-really-who-and-what-she-is.html
    The history of Daffinger is very interesting, Wikipedia says
    He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Daffinger (1748–1796), a painter at the local porcelain manufactory. The eleven-year-old likewise was accepted as an apprentice and later went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended painting lessons with Heinrich Füger. His specialty remained painting on china.

    Portrait of Countess Ferdinandine Karolyi, c.?1840
    From 1809 he worked only on portraits, specializing in miniature painting on ivory. In 1812 was employed as a portraitist by the Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich and became administrated the extensive portrait collection of Metternich's third wife Princess Melanie. He was influenced by Jean-Baptiste Isabey and even stronger by the English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence, who visited Vienna in 1819. In his late years he concentrated on the painting of flowers.
    Daffinger died in 1849 during a cholera epidemic in Vienna and was buried in the St. Marx Cemetery. In 1912 his mortal remains were transferred to an Ehrengrab in the ViennaZentralfriedhof. Daffinger left more than a thousand portraits were mostly owned by the Austrian imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
    His portrait graced the obverse of the Austrian 20-schilling banknote that circulated until the introduction of the euro in 1999.
    The frame is very pretty. Thanks for looking and any commet is welcome.

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    1. jscott0363 jscott0363, 8 years ago
      Beautiful portrait!!!!
    2. mikelv85 mikelv85, 8 years ago
      She's a beauty ! :)
    3. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks JScotto and MikelV for the comments and Vetraio, radegund and hot2 for loves
    4. Ivonne Ivonne, 8 years ago
      Oh, this is awesome !What a beauty!
    5. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks a lot Ivonne for the comment
    6. Rick55 Rick55, 8 years ago
      What a lovely lady with an equally lovely frame Silvia!
    7. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks Rick for the comentary and love
    8. kyratango kyratango, 8 years ago
      Very beautiful! I love how you displayed it too :-)
    9. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks a lot kyratango
    10. sklo42 sklo42, 8 years ago
      A beautiful piece and image two shows just how wonderful the workmanship really is!
    11. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      you are quite right sklo. thanks
    12. SEAN68 SEAN68, 8 years ago
      STUNNING!!!
    13. freiheit freiheit, 8 years ago
      This is such a beautiful piece. I also love the information you posted:)
    14. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks freiheit
    15. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks Ozmarty for the love
    16. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      Thanks Thomas for your comment. I appreciate it very much
    17. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks mikel85, paris1925, Caperkid and maritka for the loves
    18. IVAN49 IVAN49, 8 years ago
      Actually, the signature is n. Daffinger, letter ``n`` stands for ``nach``in German, meaning ``after Daffinger`` by an anonymous miniature painter.
    19. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks a lot IVAN49 for teaching me something, in fact I do not know German. It is a pendant signature...
    20. kivatinitz kivatinitz, 8 years ago
      thanks Midnight1208 for the love

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