Lot 322: FRANZ WERNER VON TAMM

STILL LIFES OF CARNATIONS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN GLASS VASES
one signed and dated on the table edge lower center: Frs.v.tam.fe1699;
the other signed and dated on the table edge lower right: Frans.v.tam.fe.1699

each: 12 1/2 by 9 3/4 in.; 31.7 by 24.8 cm.

a pair, both oil on copper

Biella, Chiostro of San Sebstiano, "Fiore: Cinque Secoli di Pittura Floreale, March 21- June 27, 2004, exhibition catalogue by A. Negro, cat. nos. 93-94.

Dr. Thomas Sherlock, Bisoph of London (1678-1761), by circa 1750, and thence by descent to his nephew;
Sir Thomas Gooch, 3rd Bt., Benacre Hall, Suffolk, and thence by descent in the Sherlock Gooch family until probably the early 20th Century;
Anonymous sale: Christie's, London, 9 April, 2003, lot 62, where acquired by
With Raphael Valls, London;
From whom acquired by the present owner.

This pair of pictures on copper, an unusual but not unique support in Tamm's oeuvre, are dated 1699, and thus are amongst the few dated works of the artist. Having achieved success painting lush floral still lifes for Roman aristocrats, Tamm moved back north at some time about the time that the present pair was painted. He is recorded as still in Rome in a census 1696, but by 1701 he was in Vienna working for Emperor Leopold.