Fine Furniture: The 19th Century Interior

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Lot 54
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Attributed to Johann Peter Wagner (1730-1809) Franconian, circa 1780

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • a marble oval portrait relief of a monk saint, probably St. Ignatius
  • Franconian, circa 1780

Catalogue Note

Following the death of Paul Egell in the early 1750's in whose workshop he had been working, Johann Peter Wagner moved to Würzburg to work for the court sculptor Johann Wolfgang der Auwera, whose widow he later married. Taking over from his master, Wagner spent the remainder of his life working on commissions for the Prince Bishop of Würzburg.