CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE

(1683-1767)

Portrait of a woman

Around 1720

Enamel on copper, oval 7.3 x 5.7 cm.

Later frame in gilded metal, 10 x 8.5 cm.

This portrait of a young woman shows Zincke working in his favoured colours of blue and white; a fashionable combination in the eighteenth century.

Christian Friedrich Zincke was the most successful enamel painter in England in the eighteenth century.

Due to deteriorating eyesight, Zincke’s career ended prematurely in the 1740s, although by then he had established himself as one of the most prolific and successful portrait enamellists of the eighteenth century. His work is held in a number of major national collections, including the Ashmolean Museum, the Royal Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

PRICE: 4200 €

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bénézit, Schidlof, Bouchard, Bernd Pappe, Coffin and Hofstetter, Darmon, Foster, Blattel. Georges Foessel.

MUSEUMS:

Ashmolean Museum; Royal Collection; Victoria and Albert Museum; Louvre, Paris; Stockholm National Museum; Liaunig Museum, Neuhaus; coll. Tansey, Celle, The Gilbert Collection, Metropolitan.