Lot 239: ELISABET CHARLOTTA KASCHANOFF, NÉE KARSTEN STOCKHOLM 1789 - PLACE AND DATE UNKNOWN

A VIEW OF THE CASTEL GANDOLFO ON LAKE ALBANO

measurements note
69.5 by 100.5 cm.; 27 3/8 by 39 1/2 in.

signed and dated lower left: E.C. Karften. / f.1819

oil on canvas, unlined

PROVENANCE

W. Forsell (according to an inscription on the frame).

NOTE

Very little is known about Elizabeth Charlotte Karsten. She was taught by C.J. Fahlcranz in Stockholm, and is recorded as a landscape and architectural painter. A View of Drottningholm in Stockholm, signed and dated 1805, was recorded with F.B. Daniell, London, in 1928. She is last recorded in 1833 in Dagestan, where her husband General Kaschanoff was Head of the Topographical Korps.