Lot 569
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Swiss School, circa 1843

Portrait of Gaspar and Caroline Wetter-Aepli and their six children, Christian Alexander Carl (1825-1884), Theodor Eugen (1841-1861), Anna Carolina (1828-1854), Dorothea Anna Maria (1826-1911), Hermann Otto (1836-1918) and Nicolaus Wilhelm (1830-1869) in an alpine landscape

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Swiss School, circa 1843
Portrait of Gaspar and Caroline Wetter-Aepli and their six children, Christian Alexander Carl (1825-1884), Theodor Eugen (1841-1861), Anna Carolina (1828-1854), Dorothea Anna Maria (1826-1911), Hermann Otto (1836-1918) and Nicolaus Wilhelm (1830-1869) in an alpine landscape
black lead, watercolour, bodycolour
16 3/8 x 19 in. (416 x 483 mm.)
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Lot Essay

Caspar Wetter (1796-1871), a leading citizen of Saint Gallen, Switzerland, married Caroline Aepli, daughter of Alexander Aepli (1767-1832), a local doctor, in about 1823. Their son Hermann Otto Wetter, wearing a blue shirt on the right of this portrait, became a merchant and later an important benefactor to the town: he gave 100,000 francs to found a hospice and the same amount to set up a cultural foundation which was to be called the Otto-Wetter-Jacob-Stiftung.

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