Living large and life to the max at the turn of the last century. Gabriel Schachinger, artist. Born in 1850 in Munich he at one point was a pet painter of the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria who never wore one fur if you could wear three. Something that obviously rubbed off in a big way.

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"Pene d'Amore." Undated.
“Pene d’Amore.” Undated. via https://rceliamendonca.com/2013/03/10/nem-tudo-so-flores-galeria-2/.
"Ludwig II of Bavaria as the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Saint George" (detail). 1887.
“Ludwig II of Bavaria as the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Saint George” (detail). 1887. Detail image via clipground.com. Collection of the Schloss Herrenchiemsee. See the entire portrait here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_II_portrait_by_Gabriel_Schachinger.jpg
"Sweet Reflections." 1886.
“Sweet Reflections.” 1886. Collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia. via https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/sweet-reflections.

Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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