01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anthony van Dyck's Portraits of Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England, with Footnotes. #152

Hans Makart  (1840–1884)

Portrait of a young woman, c. between 1882 and 1884

Oil on canvas

height: 157 cm (61.8 in); width: 130 cm (51.1 in)

National Museum in Warsaw

Makart was one of the premier portraitists of his time, with a clientele consisting of members of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. He developed a specific style of female portrait, showing the sitter in full length, painted loosely in a sketch-like manner in a restrained colour palette. Some, however, criticised his work for its superficial treatment of the sitter’s features and for its excessive decorativeness. More on this painting

Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and beyond.

Both celebrated and condemned for his sensual, historical and legacy paintings, Hans Makart produced richly colored and atmospheric works that had an extraordinary impact on late-nineteenth century Viennese culture. Markart was so popular, in fact, that he gave his name to the so-called Makartstil - or Makart-Style - a virtual school of art and design that helped decorate many of the public places in Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century. Makart's art was condemned however by academics who took exception to the artist's general lack of regard for factual accuracy and for denigrating important historical events by featuring gratuitous female nudity. In the public sphere, meanwhile, he was known as much for the outrageous society parties as for his art. His sumptuously decorated Venetian studio was where royalty, politicians, artists and writers came to mingle and to "be seen". Such was his celebrity in fact that he has be referred to by several commentators as the Andy Warhol of his day. More on Hans Makart

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