Portrait of a Gentleman

1809 · Private collection

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This portrait represents an unidentified gentleman, half length, in a white ruffled shirt and blue jacket. The handsome portrait was likely executed in Vienna, where Lampi the Younger returned to in 1805, was made a member of the Akadamie, and would remain for the remainder of his successful career.

About the Artist

Johann Baptist II Lampi

1775 – 1837

Austrian portrait painter. He was born at Trento and studied under his father, Johann Baptist Lampi I, and later at the Academy at Vienna. He went with his father for thirteen years to St. Petersburg, and became a member of the Academy at that city as well as of that at Vienna in 1813. He painted many of the most distinguished personages of his time. He died at Vienna.

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