Gottfried Boy

Gottfried Boy (born May 20, 1701 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 16, 1755 in Hanover ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Friedrich Christian of Saxony in the Reichsmuseum Amsterdam

Gottfried Boy was a son of the goldsmith and painter Peter Boy the Elder from his second marriage. He was electoral Hanoverian and royal English court painter in Hanover .

It is believed that Boy lived in the Calenberger Neustadt with his wife, who died in 1750, from around 1737 until his death in 1755 , as both belonged to the parish of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . In Hanover he was mainly used by notables and economically rising bourgeoisie for portraits, for example by Johann Moritz von Oeynhausen in 1739 or by Anthony von der Vecken in 1740 .

Thieme-Becker name two portraits in museum possession for him, a portrait of Elector Friedrich Christian von Sachsen in the Reichsmuseum Amsterdam and the other in the Städel . Furthermore, three portraits of knights in the knight's hall of the Lucklum manor near Riddagshausen . The engraver Georg Daniel Heumann engraved from his templates.

literature

Philipp Friedrich Gwinner : Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main: from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut. J. Baer, 1862, p. 246 ( books.google.de ).
Johannes Kurzwelly : Boy, Gottfried . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 488 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Boy - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ In 2010, the 57 portraits from the knight's hall of Gut Lucklum, the former seat of the regional commandery of the Deutschordensballei Sachsen , which was dissolved in 1809, were auctioned in Hanover in order to finance the renovation and security of the manor buildings.

Individual evidence

↑ Low German Contributions to Art History , Volume 27, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1988, p. 165 and others; limited preview in Google Book search

personal data
SURNAME	Boy, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1755
Place of death	Hanover

[2] In 2010, the 57 portraits from the knight's hall of Gut Lucklum, the former seat of the regional commandery of the Deutschordensballei Sachsen , which was dissolved in 1809, were auctioned in Hanover in order to finance the renovation and security of the manor buildings.

[1] Low German Contributions to Art History , Volume 27, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1988, p. 165 and others; limited preview in Google Book search