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The PTSS collection

This website lists the works of art and objects of the Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung (PTSS) of Schaffhausen. Most of the objects listed are on permanent loan to the Museum zu Allerheiligen or the Schaffhausen City Library.

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Johann Heinrich Hurter (1734–1799), 1768 Biography

Johann Heinrich Hurter

After Hurter had failed to make a living in Bern, Paris or The Hague, he settled in London in 1777, where he  established  himself as a miniaturist and rose to become the royal court painter. In addition to his painting, he ran a workshop for the making of scientific instruments. He was known not only for his portrait miniatures taken from nature, but also for enamel minitaures  based on the works of old masters. He described his method of making copies in enamel painting in a publication that appeared in The Hague in 1776.

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Portrait miniature of Carl Albrecht von Frisching (1734 – 1801)

Copper enamel, Metal, gilded, Image size: 4.5 x 4 cm

Provenance

  • 2006 – heute: Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung, Schaffhasuen
  • 2006: Auktionshaus Stuker, Bern
  • 1981 – 2006: Michael Stettler, Steffisburg
  • unbekannt: Möglicherweise Burgerbibliothek, Bern

Exhibitions

  • 01.01.2009: Schaffhausen im Fluss - Dauerausstellung Geschichte, Rundgang 2, Neuzeit, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen

Literature

  • Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (Hg.): Meisterwerke und Kleinode. Sammlung der Peyerschen Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010 (Kataloge Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen 20), S. 67, 104. 
  • Jürg Stucker, Bern: Frühling 2006. Auktionskatalog, 17.05. – 24.05.2006, S. 299, Abb. 298.
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