Miniature portrait - portrait of an unknown man

The oval picture shows a stout, elderly man, who wears a frilled, white shirt and a curled, white wig. The frame is profiled the ring with which it can be hung, is pierced with an elaborate pattern. The fine, realistic portrait was attributed by the unknown author of the auction catalogue of 1920 to C. F. Zincke (1683/1685-1767), one of the most successful contemporary painters of enamel miniatures. The remarkable work of art matches the oeuvre of Zincke, whose pieces were not always marked. His pictures and paintings can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, in the Oxford Ashmolean Museum and in several Europen collections.