Rockstuhl, Portrait of a lady

Description

Portrait of a lady in white dress trimmed with turquoise
By Alois Gustav Rockstuhl
H 6.5cm

Signed and dated 1862, set in a gilt-mount within velvet case, housed in a leather box

Alois Gustav Rockstuhl was born in 1798, the son of the well-known miniaturist Peter Ernst Rochstuhl (1764-1824). He studied from 1832 at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg and in 1840 became a professor there two years later. Nicolas I appointed him as an official court artist. Ruckstuhl is distinguished among painters of his generation by the focus of his aims: he worked exclusively in miniatures.