Lot Essay
An old inscription on the reverse states that the sitter was the mother of the artist Carl Prochaska of the Academy in Vienna.
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Mrs Prochaska, née Kaiser, facing right in lace-bordered blue and white dress, gold brooch at corsage and gold pendant suspended from gold chain, gold earrings, her dark brown hair plaited and upswept
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ROBERT THEER (1808-1863)
Mrs Prochaska, née Kaiser, facing right in lace-bordered blue and white dress, gold brooch at corsage and gold pendant suspended from gold chain, gold earrings, her dark brown hair plaited and upswept
signed and dated 'Robert Theer Wien 1859' (lower right)
oval, 3 5/16 in. (83 mm.) high, cast gilt-metal mount within rectangular wood frame with composition surface with foliate spandrels
Mrs Prochaska, née Kaiser, facing right in lace-bordered blue and white dress, gold brooch at corsage and gold pendant suspended from gold chain, gold earrings, her dark brown hair plaited and upswept
signed and dated 'Robert Theer Wien 1859' (lower right)
oval, 3 5/16 in. (83 mm.) high, cast gilt-metal mount within rectangular wood frame with composition surface with foliate spandrels
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