Antique German Genre Oil Painting Portrait Cavalier Drinking Wine by Albert Friedrich Schroder, 1899 Sculpture To the top of each

To the top of each column is a funerary urn

The base having two drawers above a corresponding carved fruiting vine frieze and twin paneled doors below also enclosing a shelf

which is why an image of an existing work will often have been given as an example

The paining is signed by the artist lower left

Fornaroli's personal life and professional training remains lost in history

Antique German Genre Oil Painting Portrait Cavalier Drinking Wine by Albert Friedrich Schroder, 1899 Sculpture To the top of eachA fine German classical oil on canvas by the genre and portrait artist Albert Friedrich Schrder (1854 1939), signed & dated 1899. The painting is by one of Germany's prolific classical genre painters of the late 19th and early 20th century, he also painted narrative compositions in an academically classical style. This very finely executed painting rendered in oil paint on canvas, in the original gilt frame, depicts a cavalier in his large brimed hat