A blogger just sent me this. Does anyone know the history or origin of this paiting?
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I’m guessing but the men in the painting look like famous people in the French Revolution. Is one of them Voltaire?
I believe the painting is by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. He was a Jewish German painter born in 1800. the painting itself dates from 1854 and depicts three major figures of 18th-century thought—the dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the Swiss divine Johann Caspar Lavater and the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
Hope that helps. Found the info from a few sources.
Niall
painted in 1856 I apologise.
National Gallery, London – William Hogarth:
Marriage A-la-Mode: 1. The Marriage Settlement
About 1743
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG113&collectionPublisherSection=work
Sorry, Not William Hogarth…
whoever did it it dont matter. its a great painting just like the ones sophia polgar can do.
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FROM A GAME SHE POSTED RECENTLY, AT MONROI. black was jaan elverhest.
on move 22 i think jann choose to castle but he had a better move, a silent but lethal one. Can you find it???
hope u like it susan and all chess and painter lovers.
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Moses Mendelssohn (Jewish philosopher) (l) playing J.C. Lavater (Lutheran theologian) (r).Watching is Gotthold Lessing