4286 - Jakob Hoff, attributed, Girl in Schwälmer Costume

Jakob Hoff, attributed, Girl in Schwälmer Costume a young girl in Schwälmer traditional dress, leaning on a cushion, looking to the right out of a window framed by vines, with a bouquet of flowers beside her, glazed, partly slightly impasto portrait painting in a round format, oil on cardboard, mid-19th century, indistinctly signed and dated ‘Jakob Ho... (18)54”, subsequently labelled and titled on the reverse, slight signs of ageing, in an ornate gold frame, diameter approx. 17.5 cm. Artist information: real name Johann Jakob Hoff, German painter (1838 Frankfurt am Main - 1892 Frankfurt am Main), trained at the Städel Institute, a pupil of J. Becker, studied in Schwalm in 1861, in Paris in 1862-63, painted mainly genre scenes and portraits, source: Thieme-Becker.