Antoinette Woodville-Schnitzler

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Portrait of a Seated Woman , possibly portrait of Antoinette Schnitzler, Richard Caton Woodville , around 1853

Marie Antoinette Woodville (born September 25, 1827 as Theresa Marie Antoinette Schnitzler in Düsseldorf , † May 9, 1881 in Bonn ) was a German painter.

Life

Antoinette "Toni" Schnitzler was a daughter of the builder Anton Schnitzler , owner of a building business, city councilor and church councilor of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf, and his wife Maria Constantia, née Hoffbauer (1808-1886), born in "Petropol" (alternative name of St. Petersburg ).

Toni Schnitzler received her artistic training - among others with Louise von Martens (1828–1897) and Auguste von Schulte - as a student of Carl Ferdinand Sohn's studio . Here she met the married American painter Richard Caton Woodville , who also studied privately with her son. In 1849 she portrayed him in a 16th century costume. Woodville's wife returned to the United States with their two children around 1850. Woodville traveled to Paris with Toni Schnitzler in 1851 . The occasion was the commission of the American "International Art-Union", on behalf of the company Goupil, Vibert and Company, to several artists, besides Woodville also William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham , to present their work in Paris at the William Schaus ( 1821–1892) managed branch to have lithographed. The couple went to London via Düsseldorf . In early 1853, their daughter Alice Elizabeth Mary was born, but it was not until February 28, 1854 that the couple married in London. On January 7, 1856, the son Richard Caton († 1926 in London) was born. Woodville died in the summer of 1855. The widow first went with her children to her mother's home in St. Petersburg and in 1859 returned to Düsseldorf. In 1876 - after two judgments made in 1875 - the properties owned by Anton Schnitzler's heirs, including "the widow Richard Woodville, Antoinette née Schnitzler, without a business", were offered for sale to the public.

Portrait

  • Richard Caton Woodville the Elder Ä .: “Portrait of Antoinette Woodville-Schnitzler” (?), Approx. 1853; Oil / canvas, 23.7 × 18 cm: Liverpool, The Walkers Art Gallery: "Portrait of a Seated Woman" (Walters 37.2652)

Works

Düsseldorf, City Museum ( color images ):

  • "Self-portrait", 1849/51, oil / canvas, 92 × 69.5 cm (SMD.B 899)
  • "Richard Caton Woodville in a costume of the 16th century", 1849, oil / canvas, 64.1 × 51.4 cm (SMD.B 898)

In the "permanent art exhibition" of the Eduard Schulte art dealer in Düsseldorf, the artist regularly exhibited genre pictures and portraits under the name Antoinette Woodville from 1861 to 1866, including "The Curious" (1861), "Child Portrait" (1861), "Female Portrait" ( 1863), and a study (1862). In 1864 she was also mentioned as an exhibitor in the Cologne Art Association. A "study head, (...) delicately felt and painted with discretion" was offered in 1863 in the Berlin art dealer Sachse. In 1864 Schulte in Düsseldorf produced drawings and watercolors by “Miss. Maria Schnitzler ”.

literature

  • Barbara S. Grosclose, Carsten Roth: Woodville d. Ä., Richard Caton . Imke Valentien: Woodville d. J. Richard Caton . In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 447-450.
  • John Gooch (Ed.): The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image . Routledge, London 2000, p. 214.
  • Siegfried Weiss : Women Painters in the 19th Century . Episode 1: Carl Ferdinand Sohn's studio in Düsseldorf . In: Weltkunst , No. 3, March 1, 2003, pp. 350–353 (fig.).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Constantia Schnitzler, née Hoffbauer (* December 2, 1808 in St. Petersburg, † March 23, 1886 in Wiesbaden) was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Colonel General Franz Joseph Hoffbauer, Prussian consul in St. Petersburg († June 8, 1838 in Age 78 in Düsseldorf): https://www.der-golzheimer-friedhof-soll-leben.de/person/anton-schnitzler .
  2. ↑ Antoinette was the first of 11 children, among them: (2) Georg (* 1834): mentioned in the student lists of the Art Academy (RD 1560, 1824–1890); (4) Maria (* 1837); married in 1875 to Max von Graevenitz (* 1830), royal Prussian bailiff in Antwerp; (5) Klara Wilhelmine (* 1839); married to Karl Heinrich d'Unker-Lützow , painter in Düsseldorf; (7) Paul (* 1843), painter; Deregistered to the USA in 1863; married in 1875 to Philippina Wilhelmina Bieber (* 1855 in Düsseldorf): Mitt. Prof. Dr. von Looz-Corswarem, Düsseldorf City Archives, September 16, 2003.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter : Düsseldorf artists from the last twenty-five years. Art history letters . Leipzig 1854, p. 180.
  4. ^ Correspondence sheet of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , 10th year, 1855.
  5. ^ Düsseldorf, City Museum; Image: https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:266262 .
  6. ^ DeCourcy E. McIntosh: New York's favorite pictures in the 1870s , in: Magazine Antiques, April, 2004 (indarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_165/ai_n6077617/pg_2).
  7. ↑ https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring17/penot-on-the-perils-and-perks-of-trading-art-overseas-goupils-new-york-branch .
  8. ^ Announcement: Düsseldorfer Volksblatt, No. 81, March 24, 1876.
  9. ↑ This portrait was found concealed beneath the canvas of the "Self-Portrait" (Walters 37.2645), attached to the same stretcher. The subject may be Antoinette Schnitzler, Woodville's second wife. (...).
  10. ↑ Düsseldorfer Anzeiger, No. 35, February 9, 1861; No. 66, March 16, 1861; No. 91, April 17, 186; No. 193, August 17, 1861, p. 1: review; No. 52/2. March 1862; No. 133, June 10, 1863, p. 1: review; Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 194, / 17. July 1864; No. 174/27. June 1866; No. 269, September 30, 1866.
  11. ↑ Kunstverein menu. Numbers, lists and documents on people, exhibitions, artists, annual editions . Edited by Peter Gerlach. Institute for Art History at RWTH Aachen University: Artists exhibiting at the Kölnischer Kunstverein 1839–1925. Source: Annual reports of the Kölnischer Kunstverein 1839–1925, p. 150 ( https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de  ›DerivateServlet› Derivate-46086).
  12. ↑ Dioskuren, 8th year 1863.
  13. ↑ Ddfer. Ztg. No. 52, February 21, 1864; No. 57, February 26, 1864: "a very pretty drawing"; No. 66, March 6, 1864; No. 57, April 18, 1864, report: “Miss. M. Schnitzler had sent the exhibition frequently and thus compelled us to admire her considerable diligence in addition to her beautiful, tasteful work. "; No. 152, June 5, 1864.
personal data
SURNAME Woodville Schnitzler, Antoinette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodville, Marie Anoinette; Schnitzler, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1881
Place of death Bonn