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Moritz Michael Daffinger was a Viennese miniaturist and watercolour painter. He entered the porcelain manufactory as an apprentice before attending the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1809 he painted portraits on ivory. The work of Thomas Lawrence, who visited Vienna in 1819, contributed to his development. His patrons included aristocrats and members of the city’s prosperous middle class.
The Albertina holds his unfinished watercolour portrait of Prince Moritz Dietrichstein. Flower studies assumed greater importance during the 1840s, including Yellow Horned Poppy, a partly unfinished work combining pencil and watercolour. Portrait painting continued alongside them: in the six years following the death of his daughter Mathilde in 1841, he supplied thirty miniatures for Princess Metternich’s collection. Botanical observation thus accompanied his continuing practice of small-scale portraiture.
This profile brings together identity references for Moritz Michael Daffinger and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Piguet
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Gouache on ivory
Bildnis eines Mannes in schwarzem Rock
Gouache auf Elfenbein
Catalogue period : 2015-06-20
Published result : 2918 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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Gouache on ivory
Junger Mann mit Orden
Gouache auf Elfenbein
Catalogue period : 2015-06-20
Published result : 3891 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Medium — source: Portrait en miniature sur ivoire
Jeune dame aux pendants d’oreilles et robe blanche — attribué à Daffinger
Portrait en miniature sur ivoire
attribué à
Catalogue period : 2023-11-22 — 2023-12-04
Attributed to
Reported unsold
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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