Georg Holtzendorff

Count Georg Holtzendorff (also spelled Holzendorff) was a painter of Saxony, specialist in landscapes, figure subjects and cherubs, who sought refuge in England in consequence of the Franco-Prussian War.^[1]

Works

Holtzendorff worked for the Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company and has drawn sketches representing the landscape of Derbyshire that were applied to china.^[2]

His main work was the decoration of the Gladstone Dessert Service, presented by the Liberal Working Men of Derby to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1883. A watercolor by Holtzendorff (c. 1882), with a view of Becket Street, Derby, with the Derby Museum and Art Gallery in the background, is the only remaining study on paper linked to the Gladstone service.^[3]

^ Margaret Sargeant (2000). Royal Crown Derby. p. 28. ISBN 9780747804437. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
^ Edmund Burke (1884). Longmans (ed.). The Annual register of world events. Vol. 125. p. 52. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
^ artfund.org (ed.). "Becket Street, Derby". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011.