Johann Baptist Lampi The Elder (1751-1830), Attributed To Portrait Of A Young Woman In A White Dress

This classic portrait of a beauty was executed around 1815 and although unsigned, it has all the stylistic criteria for attribution to the famous Italian-Austrian portrait painter of the turn of the 19th century Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder. Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (1751 Romeno, South Tyrol - 1830 Vienna) began his studies in Salzburg. After a short period of work in his native South Tyrol, he then traveled to Italy, where he worked with the Lorenzi brothers in Verona, joining the Veronese Academy in 1773. He traveled throughout Italy painting works nuns and portraits for members of the high aristocracy. Back in Austria in the early 1780s, he reached the upper echelons of society thanks to the noble protectors. He painted several portraits of Emperor Josef II, after joining the Academy of Arts in 1785, where he became professor of historical painting. Responding to an invitation to St. Petersburg, he traveled to Russia to work as a court painter, after a four-year period in Poland. Back in Vienna, he was knighted in 1798.

Provenance: Viennese noble estate.
Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna, 1975. Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from ancient to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999. Inscription: unsigned, on the back of the original canvas finds an old German inscription on the sitter: "in 1815, she was 20 years old".
Technique: oil on canvas. Beautiful original period gold plated frame.
Measurements: unframed 58 x 72 cm, framed 74.5 x 88.5 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.