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Portrait of Amalia Landerer-Averoff, c.1879

Portrait of Amalia Landerer-Averoff, c.1879
Portrait of Amalia Landerer-Averoff, c.1879
Artist
Doukas Ioannis
(Argyrokastro 1938/1941 - Athens 1916)
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Oil on canvas
Dimensions
78X63
Source
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Description

The Portrait of Amalia Landerer-Averoff, daughter of the Bavarian Professor of Chemistry at the University of Athens, Xaverios Landerer, and wife of Michael Averoff (grandfather of the founder of the Gallery), must have been painted in 1879 or a little before. We are led to this conclusion by a mention in the Ephemeris newspaper of 22 June 1879, in which the portrait of Mrs Averoff received praise when it was exhibited in the Nakis bookshop. The picture "shows the fine features and life of the subject by means of strong and warm colour. Passers-by halt before the picture in admiration of the likeness and its vitality. Mr Doukas has the ability of applying the colours with sureness by his brush, and of giving a dark aspect to the beauty of the background in his pictures, and thus extolling the radiance of the figure, encapsulating, as it were, the movements of the whole of life in one moment.