4319 - Hans Schadow, Portrait of Adele von Schimmelmann

Hans Schadow, Portrait of Adele von Schimmelmann Portrait of a lady in white, knee-length, seated, looking at the viewer, wearing a magnificent off-the-shoulder evening gown with a rose at the neckline, a white stole draped over her arms, holding a matching feather fan in her hand, against a plain green background; on the right, the von Schimmelmann coat of arms, beneath which is the inscription ‘Adele Freifrau von Schimmelmann’, place name St Petersburg and dated 1900; on the reverse, a more detailed inscription: “Adele Baroness von Schimmelmann, née Bichel, born 21 February 1868”, wife of Malte von Schimmelmann, a naval admiral who was stationed in St Petersburg from 1898 to 1903 as a corvette captain of the Northern Empire, oil on canvas, c. 1900, signed in the top right-hand corner and on the reverse; remnants of an old label on the frame; signs of age; in a gold frame, with minimal dents; inner dimensions approx. 125 x 100 cm. Artist information: born Hans Otto Julius Schadow, German portrait and landscape painter, writer and diplomat (1862, Berlin - 1924, Bad Driburg), nephew and pupil of Reinhold Begas, studied at the Berlin Academy from 1879 to 1882, and at the Munich Academy from 1884 to 1889 under Franz von Lenbach, Johann Caspar Herterich, Paul Nauen and Bruno Piglhein; from 1890 onwards, he continued his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was a pupil of Tony Robert-Fleury and William Adolphe Bouguereau, followed by a study visit to Dordrecht in the Netherlands, 1891-96: lived in London, followed by periods spent in Spain, Sweden, Russia, Turkey and, from 1907, Egypt, with occasional visits to Berlin, Munich and Venice; 1914-18: volunteered for service in the First World War; 1921: appointed professor at the Dresden Academy; Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, register of the Munich Academy, memoirs ‘Mit Pinsel und Palette durch die große Welt’ (Leipzig 1922), Boetticher and Wikipedia.