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Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

(Sweden, 1751-1811)
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5 780 - 7 710 EUR
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Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
(Sweden, 1751-1811)

ADOLF ULRIK WERTMÜLLER, A pair. oil on canvas, signed A Wertmüller S. and dated Bordeaux 1789.

"John Forster" & his wife "Elisabeth Forster" (née Gledstone) Canvas, relined, each 65 x 54 cm. Period gilded frames.

Relined canvas, crazings due to age, insignificant loss of colour.

Provenance

Private collection, London.
Bukowski Auktioner, auction 312, April 26-27, lot no 59-60, ill pl 7.
Bukowski Auktioner, auction 388, Mars 31 - April 3 1971, lot no 178, ill pl 31.
Lars Olsson Antikhandel, Stockholm.

Literature

Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1956, p 56.
Gunnar W Lundberg, ”Wertmüller - Peintre suédois de Marie-Antoinette - son séjour á Bordeaux”, 1970, p 27, 29, ill pl 8, pl 10.

More information

John Forster was a wine-merchant.