Heinrich, Baron Von Angeli

Heinrich von Angeli (Ödenburg 1840-1925 Vienna) Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria, portrait of the Kaiser in Hungarian uniform with medals, oil on canvas, signed and dated "H v Angeli 1886", 68 x 53 cm, in fine gilded frame, total dimensions 104 x 88 cm, stamped inventory number verso, (Lu) Very fine portrait of the Kaiser by the well-known portrait painter Heinrich von Angeli. The portrait offered here was commissioned by the Kaiser and comes from the Imperial Collection. The inventory number verso testifies to its utmost personal and family background. Provenance: Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria and descendants.

Lot Description Heinrich Anton von Angeli (1840-1925) Queen Victoria photogravure, 1900, signed in pencil by the artist "HvAngeli" and in ink by the sitter "VictoriaRI.1899", published by P. & D. Colnaghi, with their Printsellers' Association blindstamp to lower left margin, with margins, minor damp staining to lower right margin touching sitter's signature, in early 20th-century frame by W.M. Power, framer to King George V Image 475 x 364 mm. Provenance Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) when Prince of Wales, (printed collection label, with monogram beneath Prince-of-Wales feathers, with legend 'Private Property'). Lot Notes A FINE PRINT AFTER ANGELI'S PORTRAIT, SIGNED BY BOTH THE ARTIST AND THE SITTER. This copy of the print bears the publisher's imprint above the image, but no title beneath, and has been signed by the artist and bears the Colnaghi Printsellers' Association blindstamp in the lower left margin, indicating that it is an artist's proof, stamped and signed in accordance with the PSA's regulations. The frame bears the trade label of W.M. Power, who style themselves 'By special appointment to [...] H.M. Queen Alexandra and the late King Edward VII', suggesting a date for the frame of c.1910-1925. Prince Edward, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor was invested Prince of Wales in 1910.

Baron Heinrich von Angeli (1840-1925) Queen Victoria signed and dated 'H v Angeli/1877.' (lower left) oil on panel 10.7/8 x 8.5/8in. (27.5 x 22cm.) (oval) Provenance Princess Helena Princess Marie-Louise Lot Notes A painter of subject pictures and portraits, Von Angeli was bornin Hungary, studied in Vienna, and worked in Dsseldorf and Munichbefore finally establishing himself in Vienna in 1862. He wasextensively employed by the German, Austrian, Russian and Englishcourts. Von Angeli was brought to Queen Victoria's attention by her eldestdaughter, the Princess Royal, who greatly admired his work. Afterseveral delays, he arrived in England in March 1875 and was given anumber of commissions. They included a group portrait of the Princeof Wales and his fmaily, and likenesses of the Queen herself andher daughter Princess Beatrice to complete a series of familyportraits by Winterhalter that had been left unfinished on theartist's death in 1873. He went on to paint many other portraitsfor the Queen, who gave him the use of a studio in BuckinghamPalace and gained much amusement from his company. He worked inLondon throughout the later 1870s, in 1885, and in the 1890s. Hislast visit was in 1899, two years before the Queen's death. The present picture is not a version of any of the portraits of theQueen by Von Angeli now in the Royal Collection, and is earlierthan any of them except the three-quarter-length, showing thesitter standing to the front, which was executed in 1875 and wasthe artist's first attempt to paint his royal patron (BuckinghamPalace; see Oliver Millar, The Victorian Pictures in the Collectionof Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, cat. no. 5 and pl. 5).The picture in the Collection which is nearest in date is theartist's Self-Portrait of 1877 (Windsor Castle; Millar, no. 4 andpl. 4). The picture belonged to the queen's third daughter, Princess Helena(1846-1923), who married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in1866. It was inherited by her youngest child, Princess Marie-Louise(1872-1956), who married Aribert, son of Frederick I, Duke ofAnhalt, in 1891.