Franz August Schubert, Portrait of a Man of Colour
Franz August Schubert (1806-1893)

Portrait of a Man of Colour, 1840

Oil on cardboard, H. 0.15 m; W. 0.15 m

Inscription on the verso: Auf der Rückseite / bezeichnet ! / [Josef ?] Franz Schubert / Dessau 1840.

Provenance: Private collection

A history painter and printmaker, Schubert was trained by Heinrich Beck and Carl Wilhelm Kolbe in Dessau (Saxe-Anhalt), and later by Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Rome where he lived from 1834 to 1841.