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) 
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
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
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)
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
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)
Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1838) (Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opera National de Paris)
Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1838)
1865 Ravensburg Fastnacht (Sebastian Ebe, Horn)
Joseph Kenn (1757-1819) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
1800 Louis-François Dauprat (1781-1868)
Eugene Vivier (1817-1900), from the Nadar workshop

1845 Jacques François Gallay (1795-1864)

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)
High Life below Stairs or, MUNGO addresing my Lady’s Maid
c. 1790 John Hanby, Servant to John Meller, (National Trust Erddig, Wrexham, Wales)
Frank Johnson (1792-1844) Brass player active in Philadelphia
Luigi Belloli (1770-1817)
early 19th cen. Trompe Player
c. 1770 Porcelain monkey playing a horn, Derbyshire
c. 1815 Portrait d’un corniste, Jacques-François Gamelin (1774-1871)  
1815 French Hornist, Rosa Bacigalupo (1790-1854)
mid 18th cen. after Christophe Huet
c. 1780 Portrait of the hornist Pelting, Louis Bernard Coclers, 1756 – 1817
Hearing,  Jan Fyt (1611-1661) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Joueurs de cor, Ch. Huet
La chute du docteur Mesmer et de son système
A horn player, Hieronymus Hess (1799-1850)
A Horn Player, Thure Nikolaus Cederstöm (1843-1924)
1825 Löjliga Spel Kort, Elis Chiewitz (1784-1839)
Elis Chiewitz (1784-1839) Löjliga Spel Kor
1826 Galleri till Fredmans Epistlar och Sånge, Elis Chiewitz (1784-1839)
1840 Les bonnes tétes musicales Fréderic Bouchot no. 19
1844 Voyage en China, La leçon de musique, Honoré Daumier
Musiciens de la Chapelle
1858 Les Musiciens, Character by Girin

c.1834 Distin Family

c.1834 another portrait of the Distin Family
c.1834 yet another portrait of the Distin Family
Das Gehör, Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1708-1774)
1827 Blanc Nouvelle Méthode de Cor – Claude Barthélémy Pointurier (1789-1856)
C. Schlotmann Lauréat du Concours de 1849 Elève de Mr. Gallay
Anonymous Horn Player

 

 

 

Anonymous Family Portrait
Sitzender Bauer mit Waldhorn, Ernst Karl Georg Zimmerman (1852-1901)
1895 Bremond with his Paris Conservatoire horn class

 

 

Valve Horn Players