Lot 217: JOHANN GEORG PAUL FISCHER 1786-1875

including Tolstoy Imperial Guard Regiment and the Grand Duke Constantine's Regiment of Cuirassiers of the Imperial Russian Army, Russian Uralsk and Don Cossacks ambushing French Dragoons, the Imperial French Cavalry, types of the Prussian army, Bavarian light cavalry and artillery, Portuguese infantry and Spanish light Cavalry

six, each signed, each inscribed on original wash-line mounts, three dated: 1814 and the other three dated: 1815

each pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour

Quantity: 6

each 20.5 by 29 cm., 8 by 11 1/2 in.

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Fischer, the son of an engraver, was born in Hanover in 1786 and died there in 1875. He studied in his home town and became the pupil of the court painter, J.H.Ramberg. He moved to London in 1810 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1811 to 1871. His work gained the approval of King George IV and he was commissioned to paint miniatures of the Royal Family and military uniforms for the Prince Regent. Twenty-three small military watercolours, dated between 1812 and 1817, are in the Royal Collection (MIL 1104-26). A payment to Fischer of 15 gns on 20th August 1837, for small military drawings, presumably relates to some of these. Each of the watercolours included in the present lot show soldiers of the various armies invoved in the Napoleonic War and are variations of some of the drawings in the Royal Collection