Jan Gottlieb Jannasch "Portrait of a Spanish aristocrat" rare miniature, 1795(m)

Description: PLEASE READ SHIPPING DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY BEFORE BUYING! To learn more about us please click on our profile A small discovery: additional information material concerning the listed (by Schidlof and Lemberger) Polish portrait miniaturist Jannasch.Schidlof offers a biography of the artist G.G. Jannasch and shows one of his known works (see our first additional image). Schidlof refers to the artist's given name as "G.G." (upon examining his miniatures, Schidlof was able to interpret the initials ahead of surname "Jannasch" as "G.G."). In fact, the first initial on our miniature could also be read as "G", yet we were certain from very beginning that it is a "J" (our work is monogrammed and dated: J.G.J. f.(ecit) Cadiz 95).Lemberger, as our second additional image shows, assigns the artist the name "Jannasch" without the given name initials.According to Schidlof, "G.G. Jannasch" was a Polish artist who worked in Hamburg about the end of the 18th century. In 1796 (sic!) he abducted from that town the wife of the famous miniaturist Domenico Bossi. (Lemberger adds, that Jannasch must have been the handsomest man among his contemporaries. Following the abduction of his wife, Bossi chose to leave Hamburg immediately. He moved to Stockholm where he became later a court miniaturist.).Jannasch proceeded to Spain, where he too became a court miniaturist. This must have taken place in 1796.Still, our miniature is clearly dated (17)95 and inscribed with "Cadiz".The Dictionary of the Polish Artists ("Slownik Artystow Polskich" 1979, Vol. III, p. 220-221) reveals yet more comprehensive biographical data about Jannasch (see our third additional image).Firstly, his given name was not "G.G." but "J.G." - Jan Gottlieb (sometime Teofil) Jannasch (also Janasch or Jannas).Secondly, before Hamburg, he was already known as a draughtsman and portrait miniaturist in Poland: in 1787, he is mentioned as a Warsaw portraitist and member of the freemasonic Lodge "Goddess of Eleusis". Also mentioned are his numerous miniatures dated from 1786 to 1792 (among others, portraits of Prince Adam Czartoryski and his wife, as well as the work "Cupid and Psyche"; the latter belonged to collection of King Stanislav August of Poland).In 1792, Jannasch is known to have lived in Lvov, and, in 1795, one finds him in Hamburg, where he earned himself a reputation of a notorious seducer (a fact already exposed by the scandal caused in Bossi's family). The Dictionary of the Polish Artists also implies that the incident with Bossi's wife took place in Hamburg in 1796.Our date - "Cadiz (17)95" - can only mean one thing. During his "Hamburg" period, the artist already took a side-trip to Spain (upon invitation of one of his sitters?), and could, therefore, a year later (i.e. in 1796) flee from Hamburg not to some unfamiliar country but to a place he could trust. And finally our last additional image with clip from Catalogue of Christie's London ("Important Gold Boxes, Objects of Vertu and Portrait Miniatures", London 22 November 1999, Lot 84) provides very important biographical information, obviously taken from the the Spanish reference books: Jannasch is said to have been Domenico Bossi's pupil in Hamburg, he fled with his teacher's wife to Spain, where in 1798 he became Spanish "pintor de camara" (court painter) under the name of Held de Jaanasch. He died in Tonneins (Loire et Garonne, France) in March 1804. The sitter appears to be a highly aristocratic citizen of Cadiz - a capital of the Spanish province Cadiz in Andalusia, South Spain. Was he a high local official? A Governor of Cadiz?Besides the miniature portrait of an unknown man provided by Schidlof, we could find on the web only few other photographs of Jannasch's miniatures (one of them was lost during the WWII but recovered in 2011 and donated to the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (Warsaw National Museum; see our last image). P.S.We found a reference to another miniature of this artist in the dictionary "Les Peintres et Miniature actifs en France 1650-1850" by Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard (published in spring 2008) signed "J.T. Helt f. Cadiz 1796" (!). Provenance: private estate Burlington, Vermont/USA Condition: good Creation Year: 1795 Measurements: UNFRAMED: 7,1x7,1cm/2,8x2,8in FRAMED: 8,4x8,4cm/3,3x3,3inObject Type: Framed miniature Style: Portrait miniatures Technique: watercolor on organic waferInscription: monogrammed and dated: J.G.J. f.(ecit) Cadiz (17)95; late English inscription on versoCreator: Jan Gottlieb Jannasch Creator Dates: ca.1755 Poland - 1804 Tonneins/France Nationality: Polish / German / Spanish Themes: POLISHSPANISHGERMANMALE PORTRAITGENTLEMANCOURTIER SHIPPING OPTIONS:We ship priority registered regular Austrian mail within 48 hours after your purchase. Usually, shipping with regular Austrian mail takes 10-14 days (USA / Worldwide), 3-7days (Europe) and 1-2 days (Austria). Not depending on us (due to local customs, local post, etc) delivery may take longer. ***OBS: Austrian mail refunds cases of loss with maximum EUR 500. 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