BY NIKOLAUS MICHAEL SPENGLER (1700-1776)

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A PAIR OF GERMAN PAINTED GLASS AND VERRE EGLOMISE PICTURES
BY NIKOLAUS MICHAEL SPENGLER (1700-1776)
Depicting a woman and a girl dressing up, signed and dated lower right N.M.Sp pinx. 1761; and A woman with two girls at the kitchen table, signed and dated lower left N.M.Sp 1757, both in a black painted wooden frame
Each panel 31.5 high x 24.5 wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Nicolaus Michael Spengler Hofglasmaler was born on the 28th of December 1700. Under landgrave Ludwig VIII (1691 - 1768) Spengler excecuted two glass paintings for Jagdschloss Kranichstein. Jagdschloss Kranichstein is the huntinglodge of the landgraves and the later grand dukes Von Hessen-Darmstadt situated north of Darmstadt, now Museum Jagdschloss Kranichstein. Spengler is also known for his copies after the work of the German painter Johann Tobias Sonntag (1716 - 1774). On the 4th of April 1776 Spengler died in Darmstadt.

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