Lot Essay
Count Curt Goetzen, son of Count Frederick William Goetzen and his wife Frederica Charlotte of Reichenbach, was a Royal Prussian chamberlain. He was the hereditary landowner of Ellguth-Schmark/Trebnitz. He was the first of the two husbands of Countess Mathilde of Reichenbach-Goschütz both of whom she divorced.
Mathilde was the third daughter of Count Heinrich Gottlob of Reichenbach-Goschütz and his wife Johanna Countess of Solms-Baruth. She married firstly Count Curt Goetzen auf Ellguth whom she divorced and, secondly, in 1831, Prince Hermann Anton of Hatzfeldt whom she divorced in 1846. Her children from the second marriage include Prince Stanislas of Hatzfeldt, Countess Franziska of Nimptsch zu Jaeschkowitz, later Baroness of Loë, and Princess Elisabeth of Carolath-Beuthen.
More information on Schmeidler, doubtlessly the best Silesian miniaturist of all time, can be found in E. Hintze, Schlesische Miniaturmaler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Breslau, 1904, pp. 136-140.
Mathilde was the third daughter of Count Heinrich Gottlob of Reichenbach-Goschütz and his wife Johanna Countess of Solms-Baruth. She married firstly Count Curt Goetzen auf Ellguth whom she divorced and, secondly, in 1831, Prince Hermann Anton of Hatzfeldt whom she divorced in 1846. Her children from the second marriage include Prince Stanislas of Hatzfeldt, Countess Franziska of Nimptsch zu Jaeschkowitz, later Baroness of Loë, and Princess Elisabeth of Carolath-Beuthen.
More information on Schmeidler, doubtlessly the best Silesian miniaturist of all time, can be found in E. Hintze, Schlesische Miniaturmaler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Breslau, 1904, pp. 136-140.