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Otto Knille (1832-98)
Cupid 1860-98
Oil on panel | 5.3 x 4.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420993
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This small work in oil depicts Cupid standing with his quiver of arrows secured around his chest with a grey ribbon. It is signed with initials: 'OK' in the background on the right and the gilt frame is engraved on the reverse with the inscription: 'Professor O. Knille'. Otto Knille (1832-98) was born in Osnabrück. A pupil of W. von Schadow in Dusseldorf, he studied in Paris and worked in Munich and Italy as a painter of history and genre scenes before settling in Berlin in 1865.
Provenance
First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of Edward VII
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
5.3 x 4.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
7.6 x 5.3 cm (frame (miniature), with ring open/up)
6.5 cm (frame (miniature), with ring closed/down)
5.3 x 3.8 cm (sight)
Other number(s)
Vic Min : Remington, V., 2010. Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen – Vic Min 561Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 Supplement 20?
