All Adolf Schreyer's oil paintings
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97659 An Ottoman encampment An Ottoman encampment Oil on canvas. 79.5 x 107 cm Date 1855(1855) cyf
51834 Arab Horseemen on the March Arab Horseemen on the March mk221 1872 Oil on canvas 81.3x64.8cm
51835 Arab Horsemen on the March Arab Horsemen on the March mk221 Oil on cavnas 48.3x83.8cm
45842 Arabic horsemen Arabic horsemen MK178 1856-1899 oil on linen
Adolf Schreyer
German Academic Painter, 1828-1899,German painter, was born at Frankfurt-am-Main. He studied art first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first accompanied Prince Thurn and Taxis through Hungary, Wallachia, Russia and Turkey; then, in 1854, he followed the Austrian army across the Wallachian frontier. In 1856 he went to Egypt and Syria, and in 1861 to Algiers. In 1862 he settled in Paris, but returned to Germany in 1870; and settled at Cronberg near Frankfurt, where he died. Arab Horsemen by Schreyer.Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed as a painter of horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents. His work is remarkable for its excellent equine draughtsmanship, and for the artist's power of observation and forceful statement; and has found particular favour among French and American collectors. Of his battle-pictures there are two at the Schwerin Gallery, and others in the collection of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the Raven Gallery, Berlin. His painting of a Charge of Artillery of Imperial Guard was formerly at the Luxembourg Museum. The Metropolitan Museum, New York owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: Abandoned, Arabs on the March and Arabs making a detour; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller family, Vanderbilt family, John Jacob Astor, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., August Belmont, and William Walters collections. . Related Artists to : | C.R. Leslie | SERODINE, Giovanni | Armando de Basto | Abraham Govaerts | Ludovike Simanowiz |