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'A rubber of whist at the studio' (Anton Rubinstein, 1829–1894)

Image credit: Royal Academy of Music

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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.

Royal Academy of Music

London

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

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