Adolf Ulrik WERTMULLER (Stockholm 1751 -... - Lot 39 - Daguerre

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Adolf Ulrik WERTMULLER (Stockholm 1751 -... - Lot 39 - Daguerre
Adolf Ulrik WERTMULLER (Stockholm 1751 - Wilmington 1811) Portrait of Elisabeth Skinner (1773-1854), future wife of John Lewis Brown in 1791 Web. Signed, located and dated top right A. Wertmüller S./à Bordeaux 1789. Old restorations. 6 5 x 55 cm Bibliography: B. de Boysson, exhibition catalogue Le port des Lumières, La peinture à Bordeaux, 1750-1800, Bordeaux, 1989, p.338-339. Elisabeth Skinner comes from an English merchant family who settled in Bordeaux in the 18th century. Her father, David Skinner (1737-1803), worked in the family trading house founded in partnership with the Fenwick family. He and his wife Margaret (1744-1829) were portrayed by Wertmüller in 1788 (op. cit., 1989, p. 344- 345, nos. 129 and 130). One year later they commissioned a portrait of their daughter Elisabeth, aged 26, as shows in the artist's account book of 11 July 1789. Wertmuller then indicates having completed the portrait of Miss Skinner (square bust, canvas of 15, op. cit, 1989, p.338) and having received payment on March 9, 1790. In 1791 our model married John Lewis Brown (1769- 1851), nephew of Robert Fenwick, who quickly took over the reins of the family trading house, one of the most prosperous in Bordeaux. The couple was originally of the French branches of the Brown and Brown families of Colstoun. In 1828, he bought the château of Cantenac, to which he added his name. Ruined by the lifestyle of his sons in Paris, he was however forced to sell it. Their grandson, John-Lewis Brown, is the famous horse painter.
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