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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 383 Vienna
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 I admired a couple of portraits of a young lady, by Siebold-
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 1 Then into the other wing where I find myself constantly admiring “the school of modern art”. To me they far excell anything by the “old masters [sic]. One by Engerth. 10 x 11 ft arresting of King Mansfrids [sic] wife and four children. My Alice could scarcely be drawn away from it.
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 1 A head and busy by Eybel, small, of an old Austrian peasant woman, equal in fineness of finish to Denner.
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 Two, by Hoechle, small. An old man filling his pipe, and an old woman with a purse.
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 1 Two large ones by Krafft. The soldiers departure and his return.
¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 1 Also a large picture of many courtly personages, historical, by Matijko a polish painter, representing the dismemberment of Poland, very spirited and a splendid piece of drapery. Emp^r^ Napleon gave 80.000 francs with the understanding that it should be sold to the Emp^r^ of Austria. The latter gave 60.000 francs more, from the Paris exposition, not in the catalogue-
¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 But its difficult to say which is best among such a lot of gems.
¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 1 All of our family show their admiration and my children think that a picture gallery can be “interresting after all”-
¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Thence into the basement where there is but few paintings that arrest my attention. There is a large mosaic on the right wall in the right
¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 [-In the basement-]
Eduard von Engerth (1818-97) was an Austrian historical portrait painter. He was born at Pless, Prussian Silesia, and studied under Leopold Kupelwieser at the Vienna Academy, where, in 1845, he obtained the grand prize and the imperial stipend attached to it. In 1854 he was appointed director of the Prague Academy; in 1865, professor at the Vienna Academy; in 1871, director of the Belvedere Gallery, and in 1874 rector of the Academy. His most celebrated picture is entitled “Seizure of King Manfred’s Family After the Battle of Benevento” (Art Museum, Vienna).