Antique Master Print-KARL-FRIEDRICH-HUNDERTMARK-PHYSICIAN-Haid-Mylius-1757

Name: Antique Master Print-KARL-FRIEDRICH-HUNDERTMARK-PHYSICIAN-Haid-Mylius-1757
SKU: PICTURA-12742
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‘CAROLUS FRIDERICUS HUNDERTMARCK PHIL. ET MEDIC. D. ET ACADEMIAE LIPSIENSIS CUR. INSTIT. BOTANICA SCIENT. PROF. P. ORD. IN ACAD. ? CAS. NAT. CUR. SOCIET. REG. SUEC. MEMBRUM. NAT. CIZA D. 11 APR. 1715.’ WITH CREDITS: ‘MYLIUS AD VIVUM DEL.’ AND ‘J. JACOB HAID SCULPS. ET EXCUD. A.V.”

– Half-length portrait of the German physician Karl Friedrich Hundertmark standing beside a table while holding a large book and quill pen, suggesting his scholarly activity. He wears an elegant eighteenth-century coat and powdered wig, framed within a stone architectural niche with a heraldic coat of arms beneath the portrait. Karl Friedrich Hundertmark (11 April 1715 – 1762) was a German physician and professor of medicine associated with the University of Leipzig. He studied medicine and natural sciences and became known for his work in medical scholarship and botanical science. Hundertmark served as professor at Leipzig and was a member of learned scientific societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His career reflects the strong link between medicine, natural history, and academic scholarship in the Enlightenment period.

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SKU: PICTURA-12742 Categories: By Famous Engravers, Portraits-Figures Tag: Portrait

Description

Medium: Mezzotint (Schabkunst), printed in black on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23 x 37.8 cm (9.06 x 14.88 inch). Image size: 20 x 31.5 cm. (7.87 x 12.4 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soling and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

KARL FRIEDRICH HUNDERTMARK, LEIPZIG PHYSICIAN PORTRAIT, JOHANN JAKOB HAID MEZZOTINT, CARL HEINRICH MYLIUS PORTRAIT PAINTER, 18TH CENTURY GERMAN SCIENTIST PORTRAIT, ENLIGHTENMENT MEDICINE | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Johann Jakob Haid, Neue Sammlung von Bildnissen gelehrter um die Kirche, um das gemeine Wesen und um das Reich der Wissenschaften verdienter noch lebender Manner, Augsburg, 1757.

Reference: Wellcome Collection 4428i; R. Burgess, Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute (1973), no. 1471.1.

Biography engraver: Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767) was a German engraver, mezzotint specialist, publisher, and art dealer active in Augsburg. He was among the most important German practitioners of mezzotint in the eighteenth century. Haid produced numerous portraits of European nobility, scholars, clergy, and officials, often after paintings by contemporary artists. Through his publishing house he distributed portrait prints widely across the German states, contributing significantly to the popularity of mezzotint portraiture in Central Europe.

Biography artist: Carl Heinrich Mylius (1734-1758) was a German artist and draftsman known for portrait drawings of scholars and intellectuals of the mid-eighteenth century. Although his career was short, his portraits served as models for engraved reproductions by printmakers such as Johann Jakob Haid. These engraved versions helped disseminate images of contemporary scholars and scientists throughout the European Republic of Letters.