Johann Baptist Lampi the Younger

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Johann Baptist Lampi II
(Austrian, 1775-1837)

Mater Dolorosa

Black Chalk on Grey Paper with White Heightening
21.7 x 15.9 in (55 x 40.5 cm)

	Provenance: Unidentified armorial dry stamp; Collection of Dr. Franz Weiss, Vienna; with Kunsthandel Boris Wilnitsky, Vienna Museums and Collections: The Nationalgalerie, Berlin; churches and museums in Vienna, Salzburg and elsewhere

	The peripatetic Lampi was born in Trient, South Tyrol (now Trento, Italy). His early training was with his father, Johann Baptist (Giovanni Battista) Lampi, the Elder, whom he accompanied to Vienna in 1783. From 1786 on, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste under Heinrich Füger and Hubert Maurer. In 1795, he joined his father in St. Petersburg, where he became an honorary member of the Academy of Arts in 1797. In 1804, Lampi returned to Vienna, where, like his father, he found favor as a portrait artist among the aristocracy. In 1813, after completing a series of portraits for the Ratssaal of all of Austria's rulers, he was appointed a member of the Vienna Akademie. He later became a freeman of the city of Vienna where he died in 1837. Our life-size drawing was likely intended as a cartoon.