细节
JOHANN HEINRICH LUDWIG MÖLLER (1814-1885)
Peter Asmus Möller, the artist's father, facing left in brown coat with black collar, white shirt and black cravat, fur-bordered green cap in his grey hair
signed and inscribed on an old label attached to the reverse of the frame 'This picture is the Portrait of my dear Father P. A. Möller - The original of which I painted from life in Lübeck 1844. That picture principally was the couse that the royal Akademy in Copenhagen asked me to paint the portrait of our King Christian VIII as a reception Picture as RA which I became the 16 Decbr: 1844. it has got the Honorable place over the President Chair in the Akademy. - The day folloing the 17 Decbr I was nominated Professor. The picture was exhibited in Paris 1845 and through this and other pictures I gained the Gold medal and Louis Philippe asked me to paint his Portrait in Miniature. - When I came to London 1850. Prince Albert saw it and desired to buy it for the purpose of placing it between his collection of old masters at Windsor where it is now it was exhibited at the royal Ak: Lon: 1851. This is the Copy of the original Picture painted by myself. - Johannes Möller.'
rectangular, 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 in. (129 x 101 mm.), gilt-wood and pierced plaster mount within wood frame