PT Journal
AU Ruhe, L
TI The portrait painter and draughtsman Gabriel Muller (1688-1764), also known as 'Kupezky-Muller': Dedicated to his patrons, devoted to nature
SO Pruzkumy pamatek
PY 2019
BP 23
EP 38
VL 26
IS 2
DI 10.56112/pp.2019.2.03
WP https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-201902-0003.php
DE Gabriel Muller; Kupezky-Muller; Johann Kupezky; Regina Catharina Seng; Christian Benjamin Muller; Georg Martin Preissler; Johann Adam von Questenberg; Maria Antonia von Questenberg; portraits; shells; prints; drawings; Ansbach; Nuremberg; Jaromerice nad Rokytnou; Bernard de Montfaucon
SN 12121487
AB Gabriel Muller (1688-1764) was the son of an Ansbach court blacksmith. He was known by his alias 'Kupezky-Muller' after his master Johann Kupezky. In 1723 he followed Kupezky from Vienna to Nuremberg, where he acquired citizenship in 1734 and married in 1736. His only child was born in 1738. Many of the portraits made in Nuremberg are still known through print. Collecting shells and producing still lifes with shells earned him the nickname "Amator rerum naturalium". From ca. 1713 to 1722, Muller worked as Count Questenberg's court painter in Jaromerice n.R. The portraits of the Count and his wife discussed here are bound by conventions but excel in liveliness. The essay ends with a survey of Muller's other work.
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