Samuel Hieronymus Grimm "auction In A Castle"

Samuel Hieronymus GRIMM (1733-1794)
Auction in a castle
Oil on canvas
Swiss school 18th century

This painting represents an auction in a reception room of a castle, through the large windows we can see a village. A large audience composed of villagers and quality people, inspects, follows and buys many lots, objects, clothes, paintings, certainly a sale after succession of the owner of the place. Our painting is signed and dated 1760, at that time the artist resided in Switzerland.

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm is a painter born in Switzerland near Bern, on January 18, 1733. He studied drawing from 1760 with Johann Ludwig Aberli. In 1765 he came to study in Paris in the studio of Johann Georg Wille where he remained until 1768, the year he left France for England. For 26 years he produced numerous drawings and watercolours, landscapes, monuments, scenes of daily life, of which 3548 are preserved at the British Library. He is renowned for being one of the best topographers of the 18th century and he was also noted for his caricatures and satirical images of English society. He died in London on 14 April 1794.

An exhibition was dedicated to him at the Kunst Museum in Bern in 2014, the exhibition catalogue was written by William Hauptman.

Oil on canvas 34 cm x 45 cm
Signed lower middle SH Grimm fecit 1760
Old restorations, relined.
Gilded wooden frame 46 cm x 57 cm