BY ROBERT AND REINHOLD BRENDEL, LATE 19TH CENTURY

In the late nineteenth century Robert Brendel and his son Reinhold produced beautiful and accurate models of enlarged flowers from workshops in Breslau and Berlin. Reinhold was decorated with the Prussian Silver State Medal in appreciation of his business activities. The University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum holds over 150 of the models, illustrating the great demand for scientifically accurate study models in the nineteenth century.

A single Brendel botanical flower model was sold Dorotheum, 28 September 2017, lot 493 (€3,500, including premium).