Description
Oil, duplicated canvas; 44 x 36.5 cm
On the reverse of the inscription: G.F.Raschke / pinx Glogau / 1811
Provenance: from the collection of opera tenor Boleslaw Pawlus
Georg Friedrich RASCHKE 1772 Tschepplau (Sława)- 1849 Glogów
Silesian portrait, landscape and historical painter. After practicing for years in Berlin from 1794 to 1799, he settled in Glogow. In 1825 he restored the painting of the Last Supper, made in 1739 by painter P. Mentzel, which occupied the northern wall of the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the Jesuit Church in Glogow. In 1837, on behalf of the Grand Lodge of the National Mother "To the Three Worlds" in Berlin, he painted a portrait of Prussian cavalry general Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (1763-1836).
Asking price 3000
Estimate 4000 - 5000
Auction 206, 9.10.2021
