Wilhelm Georg TIEMM (Riga 1820 - Berlin 1895) - Lot 77

Wilhelm Georg TIEMM (Riga 1820 - Berlin 1895) Portrait of Horace Vernet at his easel Canvas mounted on cardboard Signed, dated and localized lower left "W. Tiemm / 1845 / Versailles". 22 x 16 cm Provenance : Delaroche-Vernet family. Bibliography: Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants, Horace Vernet, Paris, 1854, new edition 1926, p. 58; Bibliography and exhibition: Horace Vernet 1789-1863, Rome, Académie de France, and Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1980, p. 118, 99. A student at the Saint Petersburg Academy, Tiemm continued his training in Paris from 1843 to 1846 in Horace Vernet's studio. He accompanied him to Algiers and then returned to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as an illustrator and lithographer for the Russian newspaper "Russkij Khudozhestvennyj Listok". In Berlin, he worked as a painter on Majolica. In 1845, Tiemm portrays Horace Vernet, not in his studio on Rue des Martyrs, but in Versailles, when the latter is working on the decor for the Galeries Historiques commissioned by King Louis-Philippe.