Gottlieb Herz, Portrait Of A Lady Holding A Letter

Gottlieb Herz, Portrait Of A Lady Holding A LetterThis mid 19th century oil painting by German artist Gottlieb Herz (1810 1897) depicts a seated lady wearing a black dress, yellow bow, and a beautifully decorated bonnet. Herz was predominantly known for his fine portraiture during the late Biedermeier period. He was of Jewish descent. The Biedermeier period saw the epic rise of new money, the emerging middle classes. This burgeoning group of merchants, industrialists and professionals, looked to

This is a good example of early 20th-century Danish genre painting and it captures a quiet everyday moment that would otherwise pass us by

De Hoog has imbued this humble setting with a deep sense of dignity

His works are wholeheartedly traditional and underpinned by his abundant skill for drawing

He’s known to have painted many portraits of the Queen

An early opportunity arrived in the form of the eminent Danish landscape painter

which was a less-enhanced version of the bouffant

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Henning Ofverbeck was primarily a landscape painter that was often inspired by the classical artists of the 18th and 19th century

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19” x 15” / 48cm x 38cm

The painting is housed within a 19th-century gilded frame