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Previously attributed to Johann Friedrich Winkelmann (1767/72-1821)

Salomon Gessner (1730-88) signed and dated 1788

Oil on canvas | 75.5 x 58.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404378

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  • Johann Friedrich Winkelmann (no relation of the writer) studied with Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig, and with Anton Graff in Dresden, and obtained a stipend from George III for his portrait of the Duke of York. After travelling to Germany, Italy and Poland he settled in Dresden, where he received professional advice from Josef Grassi. In Paris he made a copy of David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps (now in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg).

    Salomon Gessner (1730–1788) a Swiss painter and poet, devoted himself almost entirely to literature for ten years. He wrote elegiac poetry, of an unreservedly sentimental nature. He was a talented painter of classical landscapes, and an accomplished draughtsman and engraver, producing prints as illustrations to his own works. His memorial in the Platzspitz Park in Zürich is the subject of a lithograph designed by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois (RCIN 704350).

    Richard Redgrave recorded a signature written in ink on the stretcher '1788 Gesner Winckelmann pinxit'
    Provenance

    First recorded in Room no 447 on the Chamber Floor at Windsor Castle in 1878

  • Medium and techniques

    Oil on canvas

    Measurements

    75.5 x 58.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)

    91.0 x 74.3 x 7.6 cm (frame, external)

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