Portrait of a Gentleman wearing a Blue Frock Coat. Attribute...

Hammer

£1,400

Portrait of a Gentleman wearing a Blue Frock Coat. Attributed to Anton von Maron (Austrian, 1733-1808). Oil on canvas. In a Kentian frame. Signed indistinctly lower left.

Anton Von Maron (1733-1808) was born in Austria but settled in Rome in 1755. He was a pupil and assistant of Anton Raphael Mengs whose sister he married in 1765. He had ambitions as a history painter, but worked mainly as a portraitist, in a style very similar to Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787). Like Batoni, he painted many wealthy British and other continental visitors to Rome like Johann Joachim Winckelmann the great German aesthete and archaeologist.  

Dimensions:
(Frame) 35 in (H) x 38.5 in (W)
(Canvas) 31.25 in (H) x 24.75 in (W)