Portraits

Natural and Hand Horns In portraits

Historical horn Players

This gallery contains various portraits of historical horn players. In addition to the virtuosi themselves, these paintings often include detailed depictions of instruments, mouthpieces, and music. The desire for an accurate representation of an individual’s likeness led to a higher emphasis on the quality and detail of the image painted. This makes it easier to identify certain aspects of the equipment in use by some of the most important and well known horn players of the time.

1718 Portrait of Johannes Carolus de Eckenberg (1684-1748), by Johann Benjamin Brühl (1691-1763) (Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig)

c.1722 from the Musicalisches Theatrum, Johann Christoph Weigel (1661-1726)

1724 Spiritello Sala delle Gabbie Castello di Rivoli

Habit de chasseur, habit de ballet, Claude Gillot (1673-1722)

angelic horn player

Historical reproduction of man playing horn

Gentilhomme sonnant du cor, Nicolas Bonnart (c.1637-1718)

c.1730 French school, Portrait de Musicien Joueur de Cor Chasse

Portrait of Marc Antoine de Dampierre (1676-1756)

Trois sonneurs, Wernner (fl. 1766)

1760 Illustration from Rosseau’s Le Devin du Village

Portrait of Abraham Adcock (c.1700-1773)

1730 Waldhornist (Schloss Wolfsturn, Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Jagd und Fischerei)

Portrait of a Gentleman with a Horn, William Hogarth (1697-1764)

18th century Austrian milk glass

c. 1750 Postal sign from Aarburg

Joueurs de violons Bernhart V. Oss. Et Madios Sigler, anonymous

1727 Gottfried Reicha (1667-1734), Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1695-1774)

c.1730 English school, man with French horn

1780 Angel Fresco from the Oragnie, Stift Stams

Unidentified ceramic

majolica plate with oriental figure, Felice Clerici, Milan 18th century

1765 Musikstilleben mit Waldhornist (Joseph Ignaz Aughauser 1724-1794) by Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

A Horn Player, by Adam Vander Meulen (1650-1700)

Deux études d’hommes, vus de dos, sonnant de la trompe, Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)

Luigi Brizzi (1737-1815) Bologna, Italy

La Leçon de Cor

Portrait of violonist Johann-Georg Holzbogen, Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

c.1740 Brass Instrument Maker, Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756)

Ritratto di musico, Pietro Longhi (1701-1785) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

18th cen. Portrait of a Man with a French Horn, British school

The bassonist Reiner, Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

c.1740 Brass Instrument Maker’s Wife, Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756)

c.1790 Portrait of a young man with cor de chasse

Chalk drawing of a woman playing horn, Vittorio Maria Bigari (1692-1776)

c. 1740 Das Gehör, Gabriel Spitzel after Johann Elias Ridinger

Horn serenade

Possible portrait of Martin Lang (1755-1819)

Horn players of the Venetian ambassador Zaccaria Canale (fl. 1735), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755)

Possible portrait of Jean-Joseph Rodolphe, Louis-Gabriel Blanchet (1701-1772)

1782 Giovanni Punto, Simon Charles Muger (1736-1828) after Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790)

High Life below Stairs or, MUNGO addresing my Lady’s Maid

c. 1815 Horn player, Jacques-Francois Gamelin (174-1871)

unidentified portrait

c. 1875 Portrait of Man Playing Music with Horn, Henry Bacon

Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1838)

Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1838)

c. 1790 John Hanby, Servant to John Meller, (National Trust Erddig, Wrexham, Wales)

1865 Ravensburg Fastnacht (Sebastian Ebe, Horn)

Hermann Kern, Maßliebchen (Vienna, c. 1880)

The Music Maker, Hans Kerner (Austrian, b. 1919)

Joseph Kenn (1757-1819) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

1800 Louis-François Dauprat (1781-1868)

Frank Johnson (1792-1844) Brass player active in Philadelphia

Italian hornist, believed by some to be Luigi Belloli

Eugene Vivier (1817-1900), from the Nadar workshop

A peaceful moment, Hermann Armin Kern (1839-1912)

c.1846 Jacques-François Gallay (1795-1864), Nicholas-Eustace Maurin (Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt)

1850 Jacques-François Gallay (1795-1864), by Guiraud

c.1845 Jacques-François Gallay (1795-1864), Nicolas Eustache Maurin (Collection of the Musée d’art Hyacinthe Rigaud)

The Hornblower, Jefferson David Chalfant (American, 1856–1931)

1905, Kunstpause, Hermann Armin Kern

1845 Jacques François Gallay (1795-1864)