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Eich, Wilhelm Robert
1828 Dresden - after 1883 (?).
Market bustle at the Forum Boarium in Rome in front of the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Portunus.
Oil on canvas. Signed lower left, dated (18)83 and inscribed «Ddf.». Verso on the stretcher inscribed «R. Eich Düsseldorf Klosterstr.: No 80. für: 650 m» by hand.
H 81, W 65 cm (support). Framed.
As a German portrait photographer with a studio in Dresden, Wilhelm Robert Eich photographed personalities of high society. In the early 1880s he was an active architectural painter in Italy. Socialising with the circles of the Deutsche Kunstverein in Rome, he sent vedute paintings to the academy exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Dresden.
Provenance: private collection Northern Black Forest.

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