Lot 16: Portrait of a young Lady

Alexander Clarot, Wien, 1796 - Prag, 1842, attr., Portrait of a young Lady, Watercolour a. pencil, 21,5 x 18 cm, lo. ri. monogr. a. dat. AC 832, on the backing cardboard confirmation of authenticity dat. Vienna, 5.12.1933 with illegible signature, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - As an extra: Collotype of a portrait of a young lady, 24 x 19 cm, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Austrian portrait a. miniature painter from a family of artists. C. studied 1810-12 at the Vienna academy. Until 1836 he worked as drawing teacher in Budapest, Karlovy Vary a. Vienna before settling in Prague. - Mus.: Wien (Kunsthist. Mus.), Budapest u.a. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker.