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    Artist

  • Darbes, Joseph Friedrich August, 1747-1810

    • Title

  • Portrait of Samuel Loewen, Berlin / oil painting probably by Joseph Friedrich August Darbes, circa 1800

  • Physical Description

    1 Photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 35 x 27 cm

  • Summary

    The photograph is available in two prints, each with a handwritten description in the back.

  • Depicted

    Löwen, Samuel Liepmann

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Bankers

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Valentin Family Collection, AR 3818

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Samuel Liepmann Löwen was born in Potsdam in 1747. He was a relative of the banker Daniel Itzig and worked for the Itzig banking business in Berlin and Koenigsberg. Samuel Löwen was the father of Rosa Valentin; he died in Berlin in 1827.

The painter Joseph Friedrich August Darbes was born in Hamburg in 1747. He studied in Copenhagen and then practiced in St. Petersburg for many years, painting the most prominent members of the Imperial Russian family. Joseph Darbes died in Berlin in 1810.

The oil painting belonged to Kg. Rat a.d. Martin Valentin in Munich, Germany.

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Citation

Portrait of Samuel Loewen, Berlin / oil painting probably by Joseph Friedrich August Darbes, circa 1800, Leo Baeck Institute, F 12057.