"mother With Two Children" By Alexander Clarot (1796-1842), Watercolor

This portrait watercolor depicts the mother of two children. It was executed in 1836 by the famous Austrian-Czech portrait and miniature painter Alexander Clarot (1796 Vienna-1842 Praque).

He was the son of the engraver Johann C. And the brother of another famous portrait painter Johann Baptist Clarot. Alexander Clarot studied at the Vienna Academy in 1810-1815, worked in Budapest in 1820-1830, where he was a professor of art in the family of Count Sandor. Rumor has it that he was a pupil of the famous portrait miniaturist Henri Benner with whom Clarot would have stayed in Russia between 1814 and 1818. He lived in Vienna until 1836 and then moved to Prague. Also known as an illustrator, Alexander Clarot gained particular popularity for his oil, watercolor and miniature portraits depicting mainly representatives of Austrian and Bohemian (Czech) noble families. Many of his works were lithographed by his brother Johann Baptist Clarot.
His works can be seen in museum collections in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Austria. (Source: www.artistandart.org).

Literature: Prof. H. Fuchs "The Austrian Painters", Vienna, 1975; Thieme / Becker "Lexicon of artists from antiquity to the contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999.
Inscription: signed and dated 1836 lower right.
Technique: watercolor on paper, original gold-plated frame.
Dimensions: unframed 25 x 36 cm, framed 37 x 49 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.