Lot 373: Pasticcio Portrait of Tsar Peter the Great

Schoonjans Anthoni
Antwerpen um 1655 1655 - Wien 1726
Pasticcio Portrait of Tsar Peter the Great
Oil/canvas, 60,5 x 51 cm, min. rest., relined. - Expert report: Eduard Safarik, Rom, 12.2.2013. - As in his portrait of the Prussian crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm the artist paints the tsar with a leonine mane to illustrate the character of the person. - Flemish painter. He was pupil of E. Quellinus II in Antwerp in 1668, in Rome 1674 he joined the Bentveughels with the modest name Parrhasius. He worked in many European residental cities a. became painter to the court in Vienna in 1695. He painted many pictures for Austrian churches. - Mus.: Florenz, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Augsburg, Schleißheim, Rosenborg, Budapest, Mannheim a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.