Regency Oil & Sand Marmotinto Painting by Benjamin Zobel - Leopard & Wild Horse - 1823
Benjamin Zobel (1762 Memmingen - 1831 London) - Leopard & Wild Horse. Regency Marmotinto Sand Picture (Oil/sand/gummi arabicum) on panel. Monogramed lower left 'B.Z.'. Verso: on panel handwritten inscribed, titled and dated 1823. Framed behind glass, verso sealed (unopened).
Striking, highly stylized and almost modern wild animal image, with an unusual dynamic composition. Would look lovely presented with a vintage taxidermy display.
Marmontinto is the art of creating pictures using coloured sand or marble dust and otherwise known as sand painting. Originating in Europe, and based on the Japanese craft of bonseki, marmontinto was popular in England following a 1783 dinner party given by George III at Windsor Castle who was so taken with a display of coloured sands and marble dust executed by the Bavarian table-decker Benjamin Zobel, a friend of George Morland, a painter prominent in the ‘Isle of Wight School’. The King and his courtiers encouraged Zobel to create a more lasting artform and they were so impressed with the resulting pictures that the craft of marmotinto was born and proved most successful under the patronage of various members of the royal household including the then Duke of York.
Visible size: 42 x 62 cm. Frame: 52 x 71 cm.
Ships from London.
Benjamin Zobel (1762 Memmingen - 1831 London) - Leopard & Wild Horse. Regency Marmotinto Sand Picture (Oil/sand/gummi arabicum) on panel. Monogramed lower left 'B.Z.'. Verso: on panel handwritten inscribed, titled and dated 1823. Framed behind glass, verso sealed (unopened).
Striking, highly stylized and almost modern wild animal image, with an unusual dynamic composition. Would look lovely presented with a vintage taxidermy display.
Marmontinto is the art of creating pictures using coloured sand or marble dust and otherwise known as sand painting. Originating in Europe, and based on the Japanese craft of bonseki, marmontinto was popular in England following a 1783 dinner party given by George III at Windsor Castle who was so taken with a display of coloured sands and marble dust executed by the Bavarian table-decker Benjamin Zobel, a friend of George Morland, a painter prominent in the ‘Isle of Wight School’. The King and his courtiers encouraged Zobel to create a more lasting artform and they were so impressed with the resulting pictures that the craft of marmotinto was born and proved most successful under the patronage of various members of the royal household including the then Duke of York.
Visible size: 42 x 62 cm. Frame: 52 x 71 cm.
Ships from London.
Benjamin Zobel (1762 Memmingen - 1831 London) - Leopard & Wild Horse. Regency Marmotinto Sand Picture (Oil/sand/gummi arabicum) on panel. Monogramed lower left 'B.Z.'. Verso: on panel handwritten inscribed, titled and dated 1823. Framed behind glass, verso sealed (unopened).
Striking, highly stylized and almost modern wild animal image, with an unusual dynamic composition. Would look lovely presented with a vintage taxidermy display.
Marmontinto is the art of creating pictures using coloured sand or marble dust and otherwise known as sand painting. Originating in Europe, and based on the Japanese craft of bonseki, marmontinto was popular in England following a 1783 dinner party given by George III at Windsor Castle who was so taken with a display of coloured sands and marble dust executed by the Bavarian table-decker Benjamin Zobel, a friend of George Morland, a painter prominent in the ‘Isle of Wight School’. The King and his courtiers encouraged Zobel to create a more lasting artform and they were so impressed with the resulting pictures that the craft of marmotinto was born and proved most successful under the patronage of various members of the royal household including the then Duke of York.
Visible size: 42 x 62 cm. Frame: 52 x 71 cm.
Ships from London.