Bildnis eines Freimaurers. Alderman W. Bean

1854

not on display

Frank Buchser1828 Feldbrunnen – 1890 Feldbrunnen

Painted during Buchser's first stay in England in the summer of 1854 in Scarborough, where he became a member of the Masonic lodge 'Old Globe Lodge'. Alderman William Bean is depicted with the insignia of the Master of the Chair.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Portrait of a Freemason

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 122 x 94.5 cm

Inventory number

1956/0025

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, The Gottfried Keller Foundation, Federal Office of Culture, Berne, 1956

Signature

inscr. on verso: Portrait / Wm Bean Esqr / Z. old globe Chaptr / 1854 / by F. Buchs. / Mbr. dito

Inscriptions

Accession year

1956

Provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 187. - Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Eidgenössischen Kommission der Gottfried Keller-Stiftung 1954-1955, Zürich, 1955, S. 60-63.

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[1] painting 19th century CHE

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