Balthasar Denner (15 November 1685 – 14 April 1749) was a German painter, highly regarded as a portraitist.[2] He painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors.[3] Usually Denner concentrated on the face; clothes and paraphernalia were done by other painters or later his daughter.[4] His chief peculiarity consisted in the fineness of his mechanical finish, which extended to depicting even the almost invisible furze of hair growing on smooth skin. He is particularly noted for his heads of old men and women.[5]
- ^ George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Composer see: Portrait #3, Balthasar Denner, 1727 www.artexpertswebsite.comArchived 6 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Grove Art Online, GARAS, Klara: 'Denner's genre figures and character heads depicting wrinkled old women and men were particularly popular and were admired for their detailed execution and meticulous accuracy. They ensured the artist international success and attracted especially high fees: Emperor Charles VI of Austria is believed to have sent 600 ducats from Vienna in payment for a typical head of a woman, an extraordinary sum at that time.'
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- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.