Portrait of Antoni Noel

Karl Schweikart

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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
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