Two family watercolour portraits by Leopold Fischer (1814 - Vienna - 1860) . The artist was very well-known Viennese portrait miniaturist, watercolor artist and lithographer. He studied at the Vienna Academy and began exhibiting in 1832. For a long time he lived in Italy and in London, where at the Royal Academy he exhibited six miniature portraits of the London high society members
Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs "Austrian Painters ", Vienna, 1975;
Inscription: each signed
Technique: watercolours on paper. Original period gold-plated frames.
Measurements: each: unframed w 6 1/6 " x h 8 " (15,5 x 20,5 cm); framed w 9 2/3" x h 11 2/3" (24,5 x 29,5 cm)
Condition: in very good condition |