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One of the great keyboard virtuosi, Anton Rubinstein (1830–1894) was also a conductor and composer. In this unfinished oil sketch titled in black paint ‘A Rubber of Whist at the Studio’, Rubinstein is depicted, head and shoulders, in a brown jacket with a dark collar turned slightly to the right, looking down. The artist was the son of the eminent pianist Ignaz Moscheles, who taught at the Royal Academy of Music for some years prior to becoming director in 1856 of the Leipzig Conservatoire in succession to Mendelssohn, after whom Felix Moscheles was named. Ignaz Moscheles, who was the dedicatee of Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto No 3, and who had known Beethoven intimately, wrote that Rubinstein’s features and short, irrepressible hair reminded him of Beethoven.
Title
'A rubber of whist at the studio' (Anton Rubinstein, 1829–1894)
Date
1881
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 60 x W 50 cm
Accession number
2003.1052
Acquisition method
presented by Mr Arthur Hill, 1928
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
A rubber of whist at the studio 29/6/1881. F. Moscheles
Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road, London, Greater London NW1 5HT England
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