Suhr, Christoph

Description:

Hamburg 1771 - 1842
130 x 100 cm
A Biedermeier-style group portrait of children. Oil/canvas, relined, signed and dated lower right C. Suhr pinx. 1814, verso old label.
A gracefully rendered group of children with delicate features and harmonious colors in a park. On the reverse side of the stretcher is an old label with the names of those depicted: “Carolina, Anton, Antoinette, Amanda, and Therese Meyer-children of Melchior Meyer and Johanna, née Nitsch...”