Princess Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna
Portret van prinses Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna c1875 door de Spaanse schilder Federico de Madraso y Kunz (1815 – 1894), was a Neoclassic Portrait Artist.
This is a captivating and elegant portrait of Princess Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna (1834 – 1910); a Russian Noblewoman, Courtier and Philanthropist; who served as Ober-Hofmeisterin (Mistress of the Robes) to empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse 1872 – 1918) van 1894 tot 1910.
Princess Maria is dressed in a black leather garment with a black mesh scarf flowing from the back of her black hair over red flowers and on to the leather garment, that is accented with a gold necklace.
She is standing in garden that has trees and flowers her her figure is set against a green-blue sky with billowing white clouds.
Dit is een retoucheerde digitale reproductie van kunst oude meesters van een openbaar domeinafbeelding.
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Federico was born in Rome to José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781 – 1859), a painter and former Director of the Prado Museum.
Federico came from a line of artists; his grandfather on his mother side was Tadeusz Kuntze (1733 – 1793), a Polish painter.
His brothers were Luis de Madrazo (1825 – 1897), een schilder, Pedro de Madrazo (1816 – 1898), an art critic and Juan de Madrazo (1829 – 1880), een architect.
Among his children were Ricardo de Madrazo, ook een schilder, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta and Cecilia de Madrazo who married the great Orientalist artist, Marià Fortuny.
The Madrazo family have been described as one of the most important painting dynasties, who literally dominated 19th-century painting in Spain.
Federico begon artistieke les te nemen van zijn vader, en terwijl ik nog steeds de Royal Academy of San Fernando bijwoonde, schilderde zijn eerste foto De opstanding van Christus c1829; die werd gekocht door koningin Christina.
Kort daarna schiep hij Achilles in zijn tent, en daarna gepresenteerd aan de Academie The Continence of Scipio, waardoor hij als lid werd toegelaten “voor verdienste”.
Drie jaar later vertrok Federico naar Parijs waar hij studeerde aan de Franz Winterhalter en portretten schilderde van Baron Taylor en Ingres (a French Neoclassical Painter).
In 1837 he received a commission to create a painting for the gallery at Versailles, for which he painted “Godfrey de Bouillon proclaimed King of Jerusalem”; soon afterwards he returned to Rome and took on projects creating portraits for the Spanish Aristocracy.