Lot 209: Johann Daniel Donat (Kloster

Johann Daniel Donat (Kloster Neuzelle/Nieder-Lausitz 1744 - 1830 Pest/Hungary) Portrait of a young lady in a sand coloured silk dress and an embroidred red stole, leaning on a rock in a landscape, signed and dated at lower right peint par Donat academicien à Vienna 1806, oil on canvas, 93 x 71 cm, framed, (Wo) Johann Daniel Donat studied at the Vienna Academy with Martin van Meytens, Weirotter, Schmutzer. He was much sought after as a portraitist, working in the manner of Lampi the Elder and the Younger; his portraits are often attributed to them. He portrayed Emperor Francis II; in Pest (Budapest), where he lived from 1812 onwards, he executed his work All Intellectual Hungary (Thieme-Becker, Künstler-Lexikon). Provenance: Viennese private collection