The miniature created by well-known austrian portrait miniature painter Robert Theer (1808 Lohannisberg - 1863 Vienna). Robert, the brother of two another portrait and miniature painters Adolf and Albert Theer, was a pupil of Eduard Klieber in the Vienna Art Academy.He already opened at the age of 16 years a studio and exhibited from 1828 to 1846 on the Academy exhibitions of St. Anna miniature portraits on ivory or email, portrait lithographies and copies after old masters .  In his  best miniatures   he converted the influence of Moritz Daffinger into the personal, in particular in some gentleman portraits of larger format, which exhibit modelerende strength and natural appearance in place of cold beautiful coloredness and rigid characteristic.

Literature:  Prof.H.Fuchs,  Lexicon of austrian artists, Vienna, 1975. Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

 Inscription:  signed  on the edge middle right.

Technique: gouache on ivory. Luxuriousy original period  gold frame

Measurements:  unframed h 2 2/3" x w  3" (6,5 x 7,8 cm), framed h 4 2/3" x w 5" (11,8 x 12,8 cm)

Condition: in good condition, no cracks or splits, in the area right from head and shoulder  -vertical track of varnish.

Price was reduced from 2200 € to 1500 €