Fine Biedermeier portrait watercolour came from the famous old Viennese collection Bartsch (see collector´s stamp on the reverse) and was executed by well-known Austrian portrait miniature painter Robert Theer (1808 Lohannisberg - 1863 Vienna). Robert, the brother of two another portrait and miniature painters Adolf and Albert Theer, was a pupil of Eduard Klieber in the Vienna Art Academy.He already opened at the age of 16 years a studio and exhibited from 1828 to 1846 on the Academy exhibitions of St. Anna miniature portraits on ivory or email, portrait lithographies and copies after old masters . In his best miniatures he converted the influence of Moritz Daffinger into the personal, in particular in some gentleman portraits of larger format, which exhibit modelerende strength and natural appearance in place of cold beautiful coloredness and rigid characteristic.

Provenance: famous old-Viennese collection Bartsch.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of austrian artists, Vienna, 1975. Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

Inscription: signed and dated 1853 on the edge middle right.

Technique: watercolour on ivory. Luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed h 6 1/2" x w 8" (16 x 20 cm), framed h 13 " x w 15" ( 33 x 38 cm)

Condition: in good condition,