Johann Günther Bornemann
(Germany 1757 – circa 1815)
Portrait of the young officer F.H.L. Meijer
Signed and dated 1788 l.r. and annotated l.r.
Oil on canvas, 63 x 47.7 cm
N.B.I:
According to a handwritten text on the stretcher the portrait depicts Joh. Heinrich Ludwig Meijer, who died in Hannover in 1840, brother in law to Wilhelm Heinrich Sievers, born in 1782.
N.B.II:
This artist from the city of Göttingen was also active in Hamburg and Lübeck. His portraits are in the collections of the museums of Göttingen, Kassel and Kiel.