"Peintre de Sa Majesté Britannique". Franz Adolph of Freenthal and his portrait of Maximilian Hamilton, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc

This essay examines the portrait of Maximilian von Hamilton (1714-1776), the last Prince-Bishop of Olomouc/Olmütz, painted between 1769 and 1772 by Franz Adolph of Freenthal (1721-1773), a former painter to the British royal court. The study focuses in turn on three visual motifs in Hamilton's...

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Main Author: Suchánek, Pavel
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) 2012-09-01
Series:RIHA Journal
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Online Access:http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jul-sep/suchanek-freenthal-portrait-of-maximilian-hamilton