The Music Room of Fanny Hensel

Julius Helfft

1849

Painting of room featuring natural light, grand piano, and walls filled with pictures in gold frames.
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Julius Helfft

Julius Helfft was a German landscape and architectural painter who trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and who exhibited his works at academy exhibitions. Several of his paintings were hung in the castles of Wilhelm IV.

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