111176

Wilhelm Preetorius II 1897

Head and shoulders, wearing a brown fur coat and a trilby hat, against a red-brown background

Oil on board, 49 x 38 cm (18 ½ x 13 ¾ in.)

Inscribed lower right: László Fülöp / Mainz / 97

Sitters’ Book I, f. 15: W. Preetorius aus Mainz

Private Collection

This portrait of Wilhelm Preetorius II was executed in 1897, the year after de László had made his first and very successful visit the sitter and his family in Mainz to paint his two daughters Elma [12564] and Friedel [111113].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [111115].

EXHIBITED:                

•Galerie Schulte, Berlin, 1898 (either the present portrait, or [111115])

LITERATURE:             

•Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London 1939, pp. 153-154, 158, 277

AG 2008