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Album of portrait drawings

Samuel Amsler, 1816–1820

Album of twenty nine portraits by Amsler, four by other artists and a sheet of figure studies and miscellaneous sketches. Amsler lived in Rome 1816-1820, artistic life in Rome at this time was dominated by expatriate Germans and Amsler's arrival in the city coincided with the period when the Nazarenes were beginning to be accorded widespread public recognition. Amsler was not a Nazarene but was closely associated with artists of the Nazarene movement such as Koch, Cornelius and Overbech.

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Title of artwork, date

Album of portrait drawings, 1816–1820

Date supported

1992

Medium and material

Graphite pencil with pen & wash

Dimensions

28 x 21 cm

Grant

7500

Total cost

47340

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