File:Workshop or circle of Tischbein the Elder - Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel.png

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Johann Heinrich Tischbein  (1722–1789)  wikidata:Q213789
 
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Alternative names
German: Johann Heinrich Tischbein der Ältere
Description German painter, university teacher and engraver
Date of birth/death 3 October 1722 / 14 October 1722 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1789 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Haina Kassel
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creator QS:P170,Q213789
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Friedrich II. of Hessen-Kassel (1720-1785), who was married to a daughter of King Georgs II. of Great Britain, was in 1741 investitured into the Order of the Garter. During his visit to Clemens August, archbishop of Cologne, in Neuhaus Castle in 1749 he converted to Catholicism. 1760 he succeeded his father Wilhelm VIII. as Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel.

Several versions of this portrait exist, of which the one in the Marburger Universitätsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Marburg, is closest to this painting.

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oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
height: 147 cm (57.8 in); width: 109.5 cm (43.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,147U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,109.5U174728
  • Lempertz, Auction 953, Cologne, 20 March 2010, Gemälde des 15. - 19. Jh., lot 37.
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source/Photographer https://www.lempertz.com/es/catalogos/lot/953-1/37-johann-heinrich-tischbein-the-elder-workshop-or-circle-of.html

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