Blumenstillleben - flower paintings by Franz Xaver Wolf

 

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Franz Xaver Wolf (11 June 1896, Vienna - 1989), Austrian painter and engraver. Little is known about his early life, but he attended the Fine Art Academy in Vienna before moving to Germany to study at the Munich Academy. There he became part of the Munich School of genre and landscape painters, and was known for his highly detailed genre paintings featuring clerics or figures in costumes, and for his flower paintings. As well as working in oil, he was also a skilled engraver and produced a number of etchings. He had returned to Vienna by the time he married in 1928. And by 1955, he was reported as resident in the city of his birth and still earning his living as a successful artist.

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(The image quality of some of the paintings I've shared here is not up to my usual standards. And, actually, there were more of Wolf's paintings that I very much wanted to include, but what was available online was even poorer. Sometimes the great bounty of the internet yet manages to disappoint....)

Twenty-eight gentlemen - a selection of portraits and self-portraits

 

Self-portrait, by Joseph Highmore, 1747.

Self-portrait at the age of twenty, by Sir David Wilkie, between 1804 and 1805.

Self-portrait, by George Hendrik Breitner, 1882.

French School, circa 1780s.

Ignazio Degotti, scenographer of the Paris Opéra, miniature by Ferdinando Quaglia, 1812.

Jules Richemont, by Gustave Caillebotte, 1879.

Count Sergei Platonovich Zubov, by Giovanni Boldini, 1913.

"Black Hunter" - portrait of David Lawrence, by Andrew Wyeth, 1938.

The poet Janko Lavrin, by Boris Kustodiev, 1909.

The sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1552.

Raymond de Verninac, by Henri-François Riesener, circa 1822-25.

Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762.

Self-portrait, by Eliseu Visconti, circa 1900.

Portrait of a man with glasses, attributed to Rembrandt Peale or French School, circa 1820s.   

Alfonso XIII, by Ramón Casas y Carbó, 1904.

Lord Berners (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners), by Rex Whistler, 1924.

The sculptor Tommaso Bandini, cousin of the artist, by Enrico Bandini, circa 1835.

Portrait of a man, called "Il Condottiere", possibly Sforza Maria Sforza, by Antonello da Messina,  circa 1475.

Selbstbildnis im Gruenen (self-portrait in the green), by Siegfried von Leth, 1906.

 Portrait of a gentleman, Anthonis Mor, circa 1570.

Matreier Bub (boy from Matrei), by Franz Eichhorst, circa 1920s.

Leo Ornstein at the Piano, by Leon Kroll, 1918.

 John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1763.

Camillo Borghese (Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla), by François Gérard, circa 1810.

Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1819.

Presumed Portrait of Jean André Soubry, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1729.

The painter Eduard Bendemann, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1837.

Francis Owen in van Dyck costume, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1773.