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SOLD! Albrecht Adam (1786-1862)-Attrib. "Bashkir catching a French runaway horse", oil on canvas

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Although unsigned, this superior quality horse painting is a typical (and, with high degree of probability, original) work of the well-known Munich horse and battle painter, Albrecht Adam, who was active in the 1st half of the 19th century (for comparison, see our images nr.13-21).
The painting shows an Napoleonic Wars' episode (one of the battles of the Liberation Wars of 1813/14?) with participation of Russian Bashkir Cossacks. In it, one of the Cossacks is shown while attempting to capture a French runaway horse.

Albrecht Adam (1786 Noerdlingen - 1862 Munich) was the progenitor of the Bavarian family, four generations of which were active as artists. His artistic career began in Nuernberg. From 1807 he worked in Munich, copying Old Masters in the Royal Museum, in 1809 took part in Napoleon's campaign against Austria. Appointed a royal painter by the Vice King of Italy Eugene Beauharnais, A.Adam lived in Milan from 1809 to 1812. Afterwards he accompanied Beauharnais in his Russian campaign, was eyewitness to all fights and battles of this war. After the Fire of Moscow in 1812 Adam returned to Milan, lived there till 1815, then moved to Munich again. There he continued working as a court painter of Eugene Beauharnais, now Duke of Leuchtenberg. The artist was also active for Bavarian King Maximilian I, worked on commissions of Bavarian high aristocracy. In 1829-1830 he was a royal painter of King Wilhelm of Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart, in 1838 worked in Mecklenburg, then became a royal painter of the subsequent King of Bavaria Ludwig I. In 1839 he obtained an extensive commission from the son of late Eugene de Beauharnais, Maximilian Duke of Leuchtenberg for latter's palace in St. Petersburg (shortly before the Duke had married Russian Grand Dukess Maria Nikolaevna; as a residence the couple received from the bride's father Tsar Nikolai I the Mariinski Palace in the Russian capital). According to this commission the artist had to make sixteen paintings with battles of the Dukes's father, Eugene de Beauharnais. Until 1852 (the Duke's year of death) he delivered thirteen of them (the whereabouts of most of them are unknown today). From 1855-1857 Adam worked at the Vienna court, painting equestrian portraits of the Austrian Kaiser and various horse portraits.

Provenance: Swiss private collection

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Condition: good

Creation Year: 1st half of 19th Century

Measurements: UNFRAMED:55,0x76,0cm/21,7x29,9in FRAMED: 70,0x91,0cm/27,6x35,8in

Object Type: Framed oil painting

Style: Horse paintings

Technique: oil on canvas

Inscription: -

Creator: Albrecht Adam

Creator Dates: 1786 Noerdlingen-1862 Munich

Nationality: German