Biedermeier mail portrait ( a pair to the next item No.) was executed by Austrian portrait painter Eduard Swoboda (1814 - 1902), father of the orientalist Rudolf Swoboda. The artist  was a very renowned Austrian painter of the 19th century. He lived and worked in Vienna. Eduard Swoboda studied at the Vienna Academy under Franz Xavier Petter and Christian Ruben and specialized in portraits of high society, genre and religious paintings including frescoes. He was especially known for genre scenes in the typical Viennese Biedermeier style.

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

Inscription: signed ( scratched and and slanted ) vertical on the right edge .

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 22 7/8" x h 28 1/8 " (58 x 71,5 cm), framed w 30 1/4 " x h 35 1/2 " (77 x 90 cm)

Condition: in very good condition