ANTON GRAFF Pair of works: portrait of Johann Jakob Däniker (1707–1763), pastor in Neftenbach near Winterthur, and his wife Susanna Graff-Däniker, sister of Anton Graff. Circa 1810.

ANTON GRAFF

(Winterthur 1736–1813 Dresden)
Pair of works: portrait of Johann Jakob Däniker (1707–1763), pastor in Neftenbach near Winterthur, and his wife Susanna Graff-Däniker, sister of Anton Graff. Circa 1810.
Oil on canvas.

Each 51.8 × 39.8 cm.

Provenance:
- Johann Jakob and Susanne Däniker-Graf collection, Winterthur.
- By inheritance within the same family, Switzerland, for over 200 years.

Exhibited:
Winterthur 1901, Anton Graff, Kunstverein, 15 September–5 October 1901.

Literature:
- Richard Muther: Anton Graff. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Leipzig 1881, p. 91.
- Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Vol. 1, Dresden 1891, p. 403, no. 37.
- Exh. cat. Anton Graff, Winterthur 1901, no. 41.
- Otto Waser: Anton Graff von Winterthur Bildnisse des Meisters, Zurich/Leipzig 1903, pp. 33 and 47, ill. plate 13.
- Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1967, p. 93, nos 206 and 208.
- Exh. cat. Anton Graff. Gesichter einer Epoche, ed. Mark Fehlmann, Winterthur 2013, p. 55, nos 4 and 5 (with ill.).