This is baroque portrait of painter Georg Desmarées (Des Marées) painted by his daughter Maria Antonia Desmarées (Des Marées) . Creation period presumably: 1700s. Unsigned, attributed to Maria Antonia Desmarées. Oil painting on canvas.
Size app.: 33 cm (13in) x 26 cm (10,24 in), with frame 51 cm (20,08 in ) x 43 cm (16,93 in). Very good condition, canvas relined, painting cleaned. In person actual item may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2 kg is going to measure some 3 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Georg Desmarées or Des Marées, (1697 – 1776) was a Swedish-born German portrait painter. After the death of his parents, George Desmarées traveled to Stockholm where he became a pupil of van Meytens. From about 1720, he worked in Sweden as a portrait painter in oils and as a miniaturist. In 1724, he left for Amsterdam and Nurnberg where he attended the Academy. In the following year, he was a pupil of Piazetta in Venice. During his stay in Italy, which lasted about three years, he also painted miniatures. In 1728, he returned to Augsburg and was summoned to Munich in 1730 by the Elector Karl Albrecht, who appointed him "Kurfürstlicher Hofmaler". Afterwards, he worked for different German courts: among others, for the Elector of Mainz, but always returned to Munich. Desmarées created a very large number of portraits, only the Bavarian royal family over 50 exist. He also painted pictures with religious and secular subjects, many of which were engraved. In Augustus Castle in Brühl are about a dozen paintings from his hand, as many find themselves again in lock Clemensruhe in Poppelsdorf. Other works can be found inter alia Munich (Residenz, Lenbachhaus, Amalienburg, Theatinerkirche, Alte Pinakothek ...), Madrid (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza), Fulda (Adolphseck Castle), Bamberg (residence), Würzburg (Residence / Prince Hall, Main-Franconian Museum), polling (Church ) Ettal.