Sandmann
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Dear forum-members,
I‘d like to share my 2 latest additions to my collection…
The first is a beautiful oil painting (50x70cm) of Emperor Wilhelm I., painted in 1887 by court photographer and artist Johann Friedrich Jamrath.
It needs to be cleaned, but I'm sure it will look great afterwards. I bought this because it fits perfectly in a damaged frame I salvaged years ago and which is topped with the Prussian crown. Since then I've been waiting for the right picture for it, because the damaged oil print is not what I imagine for such a nice frame. So I am very much looking forward to seeing both restored.
The 2nd is a framed photograph of Kaiser Wilhelm II. with an impressive crown fitting on it (70x45cm). I could imagine it was made in 1888, the year of his coronation, or around 1890, but I couldn't find the photo by the court photographer "Gebrüder Engelhardt und Schiller" to assess it definitively. The fitting looks like old brass, but it has been sold as zinc injection molding. Anyway, I don't want to take it off the frame or scratch it as it looks beautiful in both cases, so the material doesn't matter.
Hope you‘ll love it like I do.
Thanks
I‘d like to share my 2 latest additions to my collection…
The first is a beautiful oil painting (50x70cm) of Emperor Wilhelm I., painted in 1887 by court photographer and artist Johann Friedrich Jamrath.
It needs to be cleaned, but I'm sure it will look great afterwards. I bought this because it fits perfectly in a damaged frame I salvaged years ago and which is topped with the Prussian crown. Since then I've been waiting for the right picture for it, because the damaged oil print is not what I imagine for such a nice frame. So I am very much looking forward to seeing both restored.
The 2nd is a framed photograph of Kaiser Wilhelm II. with an impressive crown fitting on it (70x45cm). I could imagine it was made in 1888, the year of his coronation, or around 1890, but I couldn't find the photo by the court photographer "Gebrüder Engelhardt und Schiller" to assess it definitively. The fitting looks like old brass, but it has been sold as zinc injection molding. Anyway, I don't want to take it off the frame or scratch it as it looks beautiful in both cases, so the material doesn't matter.
Hope you‘ll love it like I do.
Thanks
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