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Mar 5 2011

Horses at the Porch by Albrecht Adam, 1843

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Horses at the Porch by Albrecht Adam, 1843

This is a reproduction of “Horses at the Porch” by Albrecht Adam of 1843.  Albrecht Adam was a German artist who produced this work at the age of thirty-seven.  He was influenced at an early age by the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremburg to concentrate on paintings of horses and battlefields.  He served in the Russian campaign under Beauharnais who had appointed him his personal court painter.  Adam produced a painted diary of the Russian campaign made up of 83 paintings.  He died in 1862 Munich.  This masterpiece is in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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