Portrait of Antoni Noel

Karl Schweikart

Basic information

ID: Ж-285
Author: Karl Schweikart
Name: Portrait of Antoni Noel
Date of creation: 1829
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 67.3 x 53

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Courtesy of Mariia Leshchynska

Information about author

Author: Karl Schweikart
Artist's lifetime: 1772–1855
Country: Germany, Austrian Empire
Biography: Karl Gottlieb Schweikart (February 28, 1772, Ludwigsburg, Germany – April 16, 1855, Ternopil, Ukraine) was an Austrian portrait painter and miniaturist. He was the father of the singer Wilhelmina Skibinska. K. Schweikart's body of work features a broad social spectrum of residents of Lviv, including portraits of the ancient Polish nobility, numerous Austrian military figures, townspeople, and the bourgeoisie. Among his works is the portrait of Franz Xaver Mozart. Schweikart turned to painting early, studying in Stuttgart and Strasbourg from 1787 to 1792. He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1795. In 1800, the artist went to Prague. In 1807, he travelled to Moscow, Hungary, and Bukovina. From 1802 to 1846, he lived and worked in Lviv. Karl Schweikart married, had a studio, and taught painting lessons here. Between 1810 and 1830, the artist was one of Galicia's most renowned portrait painters. Among his students were Antoni Laub and Korneli Szlegel. In 1846, the artist moved to Sambir, and in 1853, he relocated to Ternopil. It is known that Schweikart kept an accurate record of his works, describing them in a special book, which is now considered lost. According to these records, he created 2,000 portraits. His works are held in the collections of the National Museums in Krakow, Warsaw, and Lviv.

Object description

Nearly the entire height of the vertical composition is filled with a half-length portrait of a young man, depicted in a slight turn to the right, gazing at the viewer, set against a dark sky background. The man is dressed in a black frock coat, under which a white shirt with a father-murderer collar and a white bow-tied cravat are visible. A brown cloak is casually draped over his right shoulder.

Inscriptions

On the right in the middle, the author's signature and date: "Schweikаrt 1829".

Portrayed person

The name of the person portrayed: Antoni Noel (1800–?) was the husband of Apolonia Lewakowska and the uncle of Martyna Niewiadomska (Noel), the mother of Stanislaw Karol Niewiadomski.
Lifetime of the person portrayed: 1800–?

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Portrait of Antoni Noel

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