661 - Johann Heinefetter, Southern coastal scene, oil painting

Johann Heinefetter, Southern coastal scene, oil painting Johann Baptist Heinefetter, 1815 Mainz - 1902 Baden-Baden, Southern coastal scene with a view of boats lying on the shore, figurative staffage and a village on a hill in the distance, oil/cardboard, 17 x 27.5 cm, inscribed on verso, framed About the artist: Johann Baptist Heinefetter became a pupil of the battle painter Dietrich Monten in Munich. He was active as a genre, landscape and occasionally also as a battle painter. Heinefetter travelled to Italy, southern France, Corsica, Switzerland, Tyrol, Austria, Upper Bavaria, the Black Forest and the Rhine-Main region before settling in Baden-Baden. He was painting tutor to the Princesses Belosselski and Gagarine as well as the Duchess of Hamilton Marie Amalie von Baden. Frederick I of Baden also showed an interest in Heinefetter's work and visited the artist's studio several times. He acquired several large landscape paintings and appointed Heinefetter court painter.