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Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.
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Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

19th century
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Oil on canvas, unframed.

COLONEL COUNT CLAES PIPER (1770-1850) was the eldest son of Count Carl Gustaf Piper (1737-1803) and owner of the Scanian estates - Christinehof, Andarum, Torup, Hogestad, Baldringe and Krageholm.

The highlight of his military career was being awarded the title of one of the Kingdom Men, a rank issued by King Gustav III of Sweden after the 1772 coup in which he seized power from the government in a coup d'état, ending the Age of Liberty and venturing into a campaign to restore royal autocracy.

This portrait is after the prime version from 1800, which depicts the then 30 year old Piper in the 1794 model of the Livdrabantkarens (King's Life Guards) uniform, with the white mitre box on the left arm, which was in use until 1809.

There is a portrait of the sitter in old age in the collection at Skokloster Castle in Sweden; he ended his career as a major-general.

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN R.A. (1741—1807), in full Maria Anna Catharina Angelica Kauffman, Kauffman also spelled Kauffmann or Kaufmann, was a painter in the early Neoclassical style.

The daughter of Johann Joseph Kauffmann, a painter, Angelica was a precocious child and a talented musician and painter by her 12th year. Her early paintings were influenced by the French Rococo works of Henri Gravelot and François Boucher. In 1754 and 1763 she visited Italy, and while in Rome she was influenced by the Neoclassicism of Anton Raphael Mengs.

In England she was well received and was particularly favoured by the royal family. Sir Joshua Reynolds became a close friend, and most of the numerous portraits and self-portraits done in her English period were influenced by his style of portrait painting.

Her name is found among the signatories to the petition for the establishment of the Royal Academy, and in its first catalogue of 1769 she is listed as a member. She was one of only two women founding members.

SIZE: 30.5 x 25.75 inches. 76 x 64 cms.

PROVENANCE:

*Collection of Philip Mould O.B.E.

*Oxfordshire Private Collection.

Verso; Old handwritten inscriptions.

Physical Dimensions
Height
76cm (29.92")
Width
64cm (25.20")
Depth
3cm (1.18")
Declaration

Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this Georgian Military Oil Portrait to the 19th Century.

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SA300480
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8839
Description
Oil on canvas, unframed.
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COLONEL COUNT CLAES PIPER (1770-1850) was the eldest son of Count Carl Gustaf Piper (1737-1803) and owner of the Scanian estates - Christinehof, Andarum, Torup, Hogestad, Baldringe and Krageholm.
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fig 1. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 1. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

The highlight of his military career was being awarded the title of one of the Kingdom Men, a rank issued by King Gustav III of Sweden after the 1772 coup in which he seized power from the government in a coup d'état, ending the Age of Liberty and venturing into a campaign to restore royal autocracy.

fig 2. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 2. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

This portrait is after the prime version from 1800, which depicts the then 30 year old Piper in the 1794 model of the Livdrabantkarens (King's Life Guards) uniform, with the white mitre box on the left arm, which was in use until 1809.

fig 3. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 3. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

There is a portrait of the sitter in old age in the collection at Skokloster Castle in Sweden; he ended his career as a major-general.

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN R.A. (1741—1807), in full Maria Anna Catharina Angelica Kauffman, Kauffman also spelled Kauffmann or Kaufmann, was a painter in the early Neoclassical style.

fig 4. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 4. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

The daughter of Johann Joseph Kauffmann, a painter, Angelica was a precocious child and a talented musician and painter by her 12th year. Her early paintings were influenced by the French Rococo works of Henri Gravelot and François Boucher. In 1754 and 1763 she visited Italy, and while in Rome she was influenced by the Neoclassicism of Anton Raphael Mengs.

fig 5. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 5. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

In England she was well received and was particularly favoured by the royal family. Sir Joshua Reynolds became a close friend, and most of the numerous portraits and self-portraits done in her English period were influenced by his style of portrait painting.

fig 6. An early nineteenth-century oval composition oil portrait on canvas depicting a military officer in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes.
fig 6. Portrait of Colonel Claes Piper C.1800, Circle of Angelica Kauffman.

Her name is found among the signatories to the petition for the establishment of the Royal Academy, and in its first catalogue of 1769 she is listed as a member. She was one of only two women founding members.

SIZE: 30.5 x 25.75 inches. 76 x 64 cms.

PROVENANCE:

Collection of Philip Mould O.B.E.

Oxfordshire Private Collection.

Verso; Old handwritten inscriptions.

Height
76cm (29.92")
Width
64cm (25.20")
Depth
3cm (1.18")
Date of Manufacture

Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this Georgian Military Oil Portrait to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers
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SA300480
Dealers Internal Ref
8839
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Military portraiture from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is characterised by Neoclassical stylistic influences, crisp rendering of regimental dress, gold epaulettes, and formal poses designed to signify rank and leadership.

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Authentic period paintings display natural craquelure patterns, age-related canvas oxidisation on the reverse, original hand-carved wooden stretchers, and fine glaze layers distinct to historic oil techniques.

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