Countess Maria Anna Wimpffen née Eskeles (1802-1862), facing left in white dress with lace-bordered fichu and muslin sleeves, blue silk sash and blue bows at corsage and shoulder, her centre-parted black hair dressed in ringlets and a bun; cloud and sky background

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (1790-1849)
Countess Maria Anna Wimpffen née Eskeles (1802-1862), facing left in white dress with lace-bordered fichu and muslin sleeves, blue silk sash and blue bows at corsage and shoulder, her centre-parted black hair dressed in ringlets and a bun; cloud and sky background
oval, 2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount on a rectangular blue velvet panel

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Maria Anna Cäcilie was the daughter of the Viennese financeer Bernhard Eskeles and his wife Cypora Itzig. In 1825, she was married to Count Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen with whom she had three sons and a daughter. She was a philanthropist and a generous patron of the arts. A keen collector of paintings, she displayed her collection in her Palazzo Fini in Venice.

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