Heinrich Siebert Sr. 19th Century 1866 Rare Pair Of Pastel Portraits Representing Nobility

19th century 1866 Netherlands

Rare pair of pastel portraits by the Berlin portrait painter Heinrich Siebert sr (1804-1881) who made about 200 pastel portraits between 1843 and 1869, also in the Netherlands, most of them depicting high-ranking European bourgeois or nobles with important functions. In the Van Loon Museum in Amsterdam there are also portraits by him.

These portraits depict the politician and nobleman Herman Pieter van Karnebeek and his wife Lady Johanna Benjamina van Karnebeek van Rappard. Both are signed and dated 1866. They were 36 and 34 years old at the time.

These portraits come from a private collection, they are in good condition, with some traces of wear and foxing due to humidity through time as is often the case with pastels. They are set in later octagonal frames with old heavy mirror glass (a break in the Lady's glass) making them almost impossible to photograph. They look better in real life.

It is best to send them without the glass, possibly with the frames detached, for later re-framing, otherwise very risky.

Size: 50.5 x 49.5 cm