Lot 117: Johann-Adalbert Angermeyer (Bilin 1674-1740 Prague)

A forest-floor still life with a thrush on a branch, a lizard, a butterfly and two frogs
signed 'ANGER MEYER' (lower right)
oil on copper
8 5/8 x 6 in. (21.9 x 15.3 cm.)

Carl Roth (1867-1930), Vienna, by circa 1915, and by inheritance to the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 116-120)

A pupil of the Prague-domiciled Swiss artist Rudolf Johann Byss, Johann Adalbert Angermeyer was the first Bohemian painter to specialise in still-life painting and became perhaps the most significant Czech painter of this genre. Angermeyer was a member of the Painters' Guild in Prague and became popular among the aristocracy in the city. The present lot depicts a forest floor still life with the artist's characteristic precision.

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