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Carl von Blaas (Austrian, 1815-1894) The Prince of Valmontone with the Donna Gwendalina Doria Pamphili and Bertram Talbot in a Villa Garden image 1
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Lot 28*,TP

Carl von Blaas
(Austrian, 1815-1894)
The Prince of Valmontone with the Donna Gwendalina Doria Pamphili and Bertram Talbot in a Villa Garden

24 September 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Carl von Blaas (Austrian, 1815-1894)

The Prince of Valmontone with the Donna Gwendalina Doria Pamphili and Bertram Talbot in a Villa Garden
signed, inscribed and dated 'Il Principe di Valmon/tone, età sua 8 anni,/Donna Gwendalina/Doria Pamphili età 5./Bertram Talbot/età 19/Roma 1851./C. Blaas. pinx.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
149.4 x 1823cm (58 13/16 x 717 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Valmontone Family.
Thence by descent.
With Trosby Galleries, Palm Beach.
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Perry, Jr.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29 February 1984, lot 9.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2019, lot 588.
Property of a gentleman (acquired from the above sale).

In the present lot, we see a family portrait full of rich tones, intricate fabrics and overt symbolism. The consolidation of prominent nineteenth century families is represented in the sitters. The seated young girl is Gwendalina Doria Pamphili (born 1846) and her brother, Giovanni-Andrea, the Prince of Valmontone (born 1843) stands to her right. Both are distantly related, through their mother, the daughter of the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, to the elder Bertam Talbot. He is seated with an arm around the prince's shoulder in a display of familial solidarity. St. Peter's Basilica sits in the distance as a reminder of the Doria-Pamphili's devotion of the Catholic church and its history with it.

Carl von Blaas, an Austrian portrait, genre and history painter, was father to the well known painter Eugen von Blaas (1843-1931). He was a professor at the Vienna Academy and was elected to the hereditary nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1877 after completing a series of frescoes for the Arsenal in Vienna.

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