ARTIST: Adolf Baumgartner (Bulgarian, Austrian, Russian, 1850 - 1924)
NAME: Horse Drawn Sleigh
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Missing a few flakes of paint. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 16 inches / 27 x 40 cm
FRAME SIZE: 15 x 20 inches / 38 x 50 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right C Stoiloff
NAME VARIANTS: Adolf Konstantin Baumgartner Stoiloff, Constantin Stoiloff, Konstantin Stoilov Baumgartner
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
The Bulgarian artist Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff was born in 1850 in Linz, Austria. According to Russian sources, in the 1880s he studied at St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was very well known, particularly as a horse painter. From around 1890 to the early 1900s his Russian scenes with cossacks and hunters were frequently reproduced in various European magazines. He is known to have worked under various pseudonyms signing his paintings with "A.Baumgartner-Stoiloff" , "Stoiloff", "Constantin Stoiloff" or "C.Stoiloff".