Ludwig Guttenbrunn (1750 – 15 January 1819) was an Austrian artist who worked in the latter part of the 18th century and early 19th century. He specialized in portraiture and history painting.

Life

Guttenbrunn was born either in Vienna, or in Krems (it is not known which).Holzinger and Ziemke (1972, 132) He studied painting under

Martin Johann Schmidt Martin Johann Schmidt, called ''Kremser Schmidt'' or ''Kremserschmidt'', (25 September 1718 – 28 June 1801), was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch. He was born at Grafenwör ...

. By 1770 he was working for the

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family, where he painted portraits of the reigning prince, Nikolaus Esterházy, Thieme et al. (1922) and possibly the portrait of

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

seen and discussed below. He also created decorative paintings for Nikolaus's new palace at Esterháza. By 1772 he had moved to Rome, where he had been sent to study by Prince Esterházy (he did not return to the Esterházy court, however). He continued to work as a portrait painter, later moving to Florence. He executed a self-portrait which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. In 1789 he moved to London. Shortly after arrival, or perhaps on the way, he produced the portrait of

Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child a ...

, Queen of France, shown below. According to Robbins Landon, Guttenbrunn was successful in London, and his "name is encountered frequently in the newspapers". Robbins Landon quotes an advertisement from the ''Morning Herald'', 24 April 1794, which reads: :'' uttenbrunn'sExhibition of Ancient and Modern Pictures, No. 4 Little Maddx-street four doors down from New Bond-street, is now open every day ... mong the portraits is that ofthe late Queen of France taken from life in the year 1789.'' (The Queen had been guillotined by the

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government the previous year.) In 1795, on the recommendation of the Russian envoy in London, he moved to

St. Peterburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, then later to Moscow. His portrait of Alexej Kurakin, shown below, dates from his stay in Russia. He is known to have been in Dresden in 1806, then after 1807 back in Rome. Guttenbrunn's last attested painting dates from 1813.

Death

He died in Frankfurt am Main, 15 January 1819.

Guttenbrunn's portrait of Joseph Haydn

Guttenbrunn's portrait of Haydn, seen below, exists in two versions. It is possible that the first dates from his encounter with Haydn at the Esterházy court in the early 1770s, and the second from their encounter in London in the early 1790s. The second version is more detailed than the first, and was the basis for an engraving (1792) by Luigi Schiavonetti. The portrait shows Haydn in the act of composing: he is seated at a keyboard,Harrison judges that the instrument is a square fortepiano; Zaslaw and Cowdery (1990, 304) opine that it is either a spinet harpsichord or a clavichord. Haydn is known to have used a clavichord when he composed '' The Creation''. gazing into the distance, testing out notes with one hand and putting pen to paper with the other.

Gallery

These images may be viewed in larger size by clicking on them. File:Haydnportrait.jpg, Detail of Guttenbrunn's portrait of Joseph Haydn. For the uncertain date, see discussion above. File:Guttenbrunn - Marie Antoinette as Erato - 1788.jpg, Queen

, portrayed as the muse

Erato In Greek mythology, Erato (; grc, Ἐρατώ) is one of the Greek Muses, which were inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius o ...

. From 1789. Currently held by the Fondazione Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia, Italy. File:Marie Therese and Louis Charles by Ludwig Guttenbrunn.jpg, Two of Marie Antoinette's children: Marie Therese and Louis Charles File:Ludwig Guttenbrunn 001.jpg, 1801 portrait of Prince Alexej Kurakin, governor of the Ukraine. Oil on wood. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. File:Ludwig Guttenbrunn.jpg, Duchess Anna Alexandrovna de Serra Capriola, 1796 File:The Countess of Provence as Diane by Ludwig Guttenbrunn.jpg, The Countess of Provence as Diane, circa 1775

Notes

References

* Harrison, Bernard (1997) ''Haydn's keyboard music: studies in performance practice''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . * Holzinger, Ernst and Hans-Joachim Ziemke (1972) ''Kataloge der Gemälde im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 1: Die Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts''. Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main. . * Jenkins, Ian and Kim Sloan (1996) ''Vases & volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his collection''. British Museum Press. . * Robbins Landon, H. C. (1976) ''Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 3''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. * Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Frederick Charles Willis, Hans Vollmer (1922) ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Volume 15, article ''"Ludwig Guttenbrunn".'' W. Engelmann. Available on Google Books. * Zaslaw, Neal and William Cowdery (1990) ''The Compleat Mozart: a guide to the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Guttenbrunn, Ludwig 18th-century Austrian painters 18th-century Austrian male artists Austrian male painters 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century male artists Joseph Haydn Austrian expatriates in Hungary Austrian expatriates in the United Kingdom Austrian expatriates in Germany Artists from Vienna People from Krems an der Donau 1750 births 1819 deaths