Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)

Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)

Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)
These two portraits were painted by the Austrian portraitist Adam Gruenbaum one of them is signed A. The other two ladies' portraits also from the House of Habsburg?

Were painted by unknown Austrian artists of the late 18th-early 19th centuries. The large enamel clearly shows the Coat of Arms of the family of one of the unknown ladies, who was presumably in some way connected with the Archduchess Maria Elisabeth. Maria Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria was born on 13th August 1743 in Vienna as 6th child (and 5th daughter) of Kaiserin (Empress) Maria Theresia of Austria and her consort, Franz I Stephan.

She was very beauty, but her character was rather flighty and she had no distinct interests. Maria Theresia called she "coquette of beauty" and she was considered only as a bride in future important political marriage. Mother thought about the widowed King Louis XV, but daughter's unexpexted illness (she was infected with smallpox) dished Maria Elisabeth' beauty and marriage idea. In 1780, as Maria Theresia died, Maria Elisabeth and her unmarried sisters, Maria Anna and Maria Christina were ordered by their brother (and now new Kaiser) Joseph Ii to leave Vienna. Maria Elisabeth moved to Inssbruck, where in 1781 she became the abbess of "Adelige Damenstift".

In 1805 she fled from nearing Napoleon's army to Viena and then to Linz where she resided until her death, on 22th September 1808. She was burried in the tomb of Linz cathedral "Alter Dom".

Exhibition with his portrait miniatures. He was the elder brother of the well known Austrian miniaturist Lorenz Gruenbaum, who was born in 1791 in Haslau by Eger. Sizes of the four miniatures and one enamel range from 2,7x2,3cm/1,1x0,9in to 8,0x11,0cm/3,1x4,3in. Size of the tableau: 23,6x26,6cm/9,3x10,5in. Condition: good; one portrait with minor paint loss at one o'clock and a vertical crack in the right area going from two o'clock to the sitter's shoulder; all five are set in velvet with brass standing tableau.

Measurements: UNFRAMED: see description FRAMED: 23,6x26,6cm/9,3x10,5in. Object Type: four miniatures in one mount. Watercolor on organic wafer; enamelc.

One portrait is signed A. Creator Dates: 1784 Haslau (Hazlov) - after 1827. PLEASE NOTE: We are NOT professional packers!


Tableau with 4 portrait miniatures of the Austrian royalties & a Coat of Arms(m)