John Quincy Adams - Before WWI (1903-1914)

The Coal yard 1903

. Description see below. JQAW# G_1903_160 Oil on cardboard 50 x 64 cm Signature: John Ɑdams 903 Private collection Austria

Winter landscape 1903

Winter landscape. A snowy meadow crossed by a small ice-free stream (right foreground to left background). The end of the meadow is formed by a sparse row of spruce trees with low bushes. In the background snowy, wooded mountain [...]

Helene Odilon as Dubarry 1903

For picture description see below. JQAW# P_1903_040 Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Signature: JQ (intertwined) Ɑdams Wien Museum Inv.Nr. 50.061 Picture: private photograph of condition during restauration Privataufnahme [...]

Helene Odilon as Dubarry Duplicate 1903

. JQAW# P_1903_050 Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Signature: JQ (intertwined) Ɑdams 1903 Unknown private collection (Poland?) Picture: online art trade Poland

Heinrich von Angeli 1903

JQAW# P_1903_060 Oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm? Signature: likely: J Q Ɑdams 903 Künstlerhaus Vienna president gallery No.7 Since 1945 lost (likely destroyed)

Richard Klemens Prince Metternich-Winneburg 1903

Half portrait in side view, sitting in high armchair, head turned slightly to his right, looking at the viewer; the sitter in black suit, gray-haired, with pronounced whiskers. JQAW# P_1903_070 Oil on canvas 71 x 58 [...]

The 7 executioners 1904

Lost large painting (see description of the picture from contemporary sources below) JQAW# P_1904_010 Oil on canvas 172 x 300 cm. Signature: Unknown Painting lost. "In front of a painting (nude study of a young [...]

Preparing breakfast 1904

. For description see below. JQAW# P_1904_020 Oil on wood, 68 x 52 cm. Signature: John Q. Ɑdams 904. Unknown private collection. Image: Künstlerhausarchiv.

Mizzy Berl 1904

. JQAW# P_1904_030 Oil on canvas dimensons unknown Signatur: John Quincy Ɑdams Work lost Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna

Grete and Loli Cohn 1904

. JQAW# P_1904_050 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown. Signature: none visible Work lost B/W Illustration: Künstlerhaus Archiv Vienna

Girl standing by park bench 1904

Full-body portrait of a girl about 5 years old standing by a park bench. She wears a short white dress with blue ribbbons as shoulder holders, the left one having slipped down. In her long black hair she wears a blue mesh. [...]

Book illustration ball donation Concordia Ball 1905

. Dutch genre scene. Seated full-length portraits of a young fisherman (shown in side back view and wearing a fisherman's hat) in animated conversation with a girl, embracing her upper right arm. The girl, in front view, [...]

Duschnitz children group portrait 1905

. For description s. text below. JQAW# P_1905_010 Oil on canvas 165 x 140 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 905 Unknown private collection (likely USA) Photo: courtesy Shannon's Milford, CT USA.

Olga Duschnitz ca. 1905-1910

. JQAW# P_1905_020 Oil on canvas, dimensions currently unknown Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams. Private collection France Illustration: private photograph

Gretl Urban 1905

. Full-length near-profile portrait, in standing position, shown in residential interior. The portrayed woman, her hair pinned up, puts on a white silk evening glove. She wears a dark purple silk dress, the sleeves trimmed [...]

Hedwig Reichert 1905

. JQAW# P_1905_040 Oil on canvass, dimensions unknown Signature: unknown, but likely John Quincy Ɑdams Work lost, WANTED!!

Martha Brünner Happy Days 1905

Half portrait, body turned to her left, head facing the viewer, looking at him directly. The young lady wears her brown hair pinned up and is wrapped in a pink silk cape, which leaves her shoulders free and which she holds [...]

Dr. Heinrich Heidlmair 1905

. JQAW# P_1905_060 Oil on canvas 110 x 88 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1905 Kremsmünster Abbey Austria Inv.# 368 Picture credit: friendly communication Father Altman Kremsmünster Abbey.

Bertha Habig 1905

¾ Portrait in sitting position, body in front/side view, face in profile view. The sitter is seated turned to her left side in a dark green club chair, legs crossed. Her right hand rests on her knee holding a closed fan, [...]

Teddy Blyth 1905

Bust portrait of a 2‐year‐old boy, en face, looking at the viewer. The boy has long dark-blond curly hair and blue eyes. Around his neck he wears a large medallion. He is wrapped in a transparent white fabric. Background [...]

Victor Luithlen 1905

Half portrait en face of a 4-year-old boy in a light blue and white striped sailor's costume with square neckline. Head with long brown hair, on it a sun hat, against a landscape background. JQAW# P_1905_090 Watercolor/pastel [...]

Boy portrait ca. 1905

Chest portrait of a boy, slightly sideways, head turned to his left, looking past the viewer; wearing a black sailor suit with white stripes, and a white undershirt with black border. Stylized landscape background. JQAW# [...]

Henriette Zierer 1905

. JQAW# P_1905_110 Oil on canvas dimensons unknown Signatur: John Q. Ɑdams Work lost Picture: Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung Kunst Revue Heft 12 (1908) S.293

Portrait Baronesse G.? 1905

. JQAW# P_1905_120 Oil on canvas dimensons unknown Signatur: John Quincy Ɑdams 05 Work lost Picture: B/W photo from the estate of the artist (Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna) Wien)

Steffy Adams 1905/06

Full body portrait en face in sitting position, legs crossed. Her right hand rests on her lap, her left hand resting on a dresser, head slightly tilted towards the viewer, but not in direct eye contact with him. She wears [...]

Self portrait 1906

Bust portrait en face, head turned slightly sideways to the right, dressed in suit, gilet and tie. JQAW# P_1906_010 Charcoal on paper 15.5 x 12.4 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams - with (subsequent) dedication: In [...]

Betty Brünner 1906

. JQAW# P_1906_030 Oil on canvas 83 x 64 cm oval Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 906 Unknown private collection (presum. Austria)

Ferdinand Brünner 1906

. JQAW# P_1906_040 Oil on canvas 170 x 132 cm Signature: John Q. Ɑdams 06 Technisches Museum Vienna Inv.Nr. B-001556

Gisela Kinsky 1906

. JQAW# P_1906_050 Bust portrait, body slightly turned to the left, head facing the viewer and looking at him. In black lace dress with white lace edging and a black hat with white ostrich feathers, and diamond ruby [...]

Dr. Hans Adler 1906

. Half portrait in seated position and side view from the left. The sitter in a dark suit with white hair and full beard, sits in an armchair with curved armrests, elbows propped on the armrest, hands clasped together [...]

Friedrich Sueß Senior 1906

¾ Portrait standing, looking directly at the viewer. The sitter with bald head and well-groomed white full beard. He wears a black tailcoat with white shirt and tailcoat tie, under it the Commander's Cross of the Order of [...]

Military horse stables on the Schmelz 1907

. JQAW# G_1907_010 Oil on canvas 32 x 46 cm signed and dated 1907 Unknown private collection (Vienna?)

Fan sheet ball donation Concordia Ball 1907

. Half-sided head portrait of a young lady with bare shoulders and short hair, on the back of the head a silver cap. JQAW# 1907_020 Color print on wood ca. 10 x 3 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Original lost Illustrations [...]

AD 1189 Arrival of Emperor Barbarossa on the Danube 1907/08

JQAW# G_1908_040 Oil on canvas ca. 260 x 840 cm Signature: unknown, likely: John Quincy Ɑdams Work lost

Ida Lichtenstern Kohn Nauss ca. 1907

Bust Portrait, side view, her head turned towards and looking directly at the viewer with a beautiful smile. The sitter wears a white dress and over it a semi-transparent black chiffon with a black trim, on her head an enormous [...]

Ernst Regenhart 1907

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Portrait of a lady with vase of flowers 1907

. for picture description see below. JQAW# P_1907_030 Oil on canvas 130 x 110 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 907. Private collection, USA.

Sculptor Prof. Carl Kundmann 1907 WANTED!!!

. JQAW# P_1907_040 Red chalk on paper, dimensions unknown Signature: likely signed and dated Work lost. WANTED!!!

Lilly Berger 1907

Full-length portrait standing, head slightly tilted, looking at the viewer. The sitter is nude except for a transparent black veil and poses in front of a rich interior: marble fireplace with decorative objects (silver goblet, [...]

Marie Hofteufel 1907

Marie Hofteufel as Mabel Chiltern in Oskar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband". Full-length portrait view from the right, standing in front of a large Empire mirror, head slightly tilted, looking at a begging wire-haired dachshund [...]

Theo Drill-Oridge 1907

Full-body portrait in standing position, slightly turned to the right, her left elbow supported on a high Renaissance chest; head slightly lowered, but not looking at the viewer. Background a living room interior with landscape [...]

Lili Marberg 1907

Lili Marberg as Jolanthe in the play "The Devil" by Ferenc Molnár. Full-length portrait, descending from a round podium, looking toward the viewer. The sitter wears a splendid, fur-trimmed coat, which has slipped down over [...]

Richard Graf Bienert-Schmerling 1907

Full body portrait in sitting position, legs crossed, his left hand on his thigh, his right hand placed on a table, looking directly at the viewer. He wears a black tailcoat, with white shirt and bow tie, wearing the insignia [...]

Kärntnerstrasse 1860 1908.

Genre Street scene. A young lady in Biedermeier costume, side view from the right, head turned towards the viewer, her left hand pressed into her side, holding a stretched parasol in her right hand. Pink dress with neckerchief, [...]

Interior study for portrait of Johann II. Liechtenstein 1908

View of a salon in a baroque suite of rooms with white and gold paneling. In the center a round table, around which a sofa and four armchairs covered with red brocade are grouped. On the left, a window with a white curtain [...]

Horse head study 1908

Study of a brown horse with a hem, only head and upper part of the neck executed. Left front foreground excluded from the picture by light brushstrokes. JQAW# G_1908_30 Oil on canvas 77 x 62 cm Signature: John Quincy [...]

The artist and his family 1908

. Image description see below. JQAW# P_1908_010 Oil on canvas 210 x 200 cm Signed: John Quincy Ɑdams 908 Vienna Museum Inv.#78.742 Dedication Countess Walderdorff

Pastel of female half figure 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_020 Pastel on cardboard 87 x 63 cm Signature likely: John Quincy Ɑdams 908 Work lost. This work is documented only from a Vienna auction from 1928 (Kende 29.-30.9.1928 Lot 2), there described as [...]

Lady in green dress on chest 1908

. JQAW# P1908_030 Oil on wood ca. 70 x 53 cm (62 x 49 - probably without frame). Signature: J. Qu. Ɑdams 908 Work lost This lost painting is documented only by entries in auction catalogs. It is described (summary [...]

Johann II. Prince Liechtenstein 1908

. For picture description see below. JQAW# P_1908_040 Oil on canvas 134 x 119 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1908. Liechtenstein Princely Collections Vaduz-Vienna GE1161 Image credit: Wikimedia Commons, for [...]

Gisela Edlinger 1908

Full-length portrait of a standing young lady in a slightly side view, her head slightly tilted and turned towards the viewer. She wears a floor-length black chiffon dress with a wide neckline and over her shoulders a light [...]

Lady with hat and fur stole in blue dress 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_060 Pastel/colored pencil on canvas? 76 x 61 (79 x 65 cm) Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 908 Work lost Image: Künstlerhausarchiv Vienna Bust portrait in left profile view of a young lady wearing [...]

Lily and Helene Kurz von Hardtendorff 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_070 Oil on canvas ca. 240 x 180 cm (Original) Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 908. Only fragments surviving Private collection Scotland, UK Illustration: reconstructed original (color inserts show [...]

Kurz equestrian portrait 1908

Full-length portraits of Mr. Kurz and his daughter in riding costumes with two riding horses in front of a landscape background. Mr. Kurz, on the left of the picture, in sideways position turned to his left, wearing a dark [...]

Franz II Hardtmuth 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_090 Oil on canvas 137 x 82 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 08 Private collection France Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna (for color scheme s. cross-references)

Franz II Hardtmuth as huntsman 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_100 Oil on canvas dimensions likely ca. 137 x 82 cm Signature likely: John Quincy Ɑdams 08 Private collection, ca.1985 stolen from owners, since then lost. Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna

Sisters Ali and Hanni Friedmann 1908

. for picture description s. below. JQAW# P_1908_110 Oil on canvas 202 x 170 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 08 Private collection Austria, portrait lost since 1986. Image: Color reproduction, Künstlerhausarchiv [...]

Max Friedmann 1908

¾ Portrait in a sitting position. The sitter is seated in a brown club chair, legs crossed, hands clasped together, a cigar in his right hand. The body is slightly turned, the head facing the viewer, looking directly at [...]

Irene Mandl 1908

Three-quarter portrait seated and in pensive pose; right arm resting on upholstered club chair, left arm resting on her knee. Dressed in purple silk dress combined with white blouse (forearms uncovered) and with a white chiffon [...]

Baroness Gisela Groedel 1908

. JQAW# P_1908_190 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: none recognizable Work lost (presumed to be in France/Monaco) Illustration: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna.

The operation 1909

Image description see below. JQAW# P_1909_010 Oil on canvas 200 x 200 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 909. University of Vienna, Institute for the History of Medicine Josefinum Josefinum MUW-GE-006036r. Permanent [...]

Selma Kurz 1909

Full-length portrait, with slightly tilted head looking at the viewer, standing at a piano, her left hand on its keys, the right hand behind her back, in an apartment interior (blue-gold upholstered rococo armchair, marble [...]

Knight pre- 1910

. Almost full-body portrait of a medieval knight; standing, head turned to the right, looking into the distance. He wears a red tunic, chain mail underneath, chain mail on his head and neck, holding a full face helmet [...]

Woman in red blouse ca. 1910

3/4 portrait of a woman, slightly turned to the right, her head slightly lowered. According to auction calatogue: in red bluse with white collar. JQAW# P_1910_020 Oil on canvas 106 x 63 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Unknown [...]

Emil Schwarz 1910

. JQAW# 1910_030 Oil on canvas 115 x111 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams. Private collection Austria Picture: Dorotheum Vienna

Lady at the spinett ca.1910

Original: full body portrait in side view, in sitting position at a spinet, hands on the keys. Head turned to the left, looking at the viewer. The sitter wears her hair up, with the side braids tied up into scrolls. She wears [...]

Young lady in a black dress ca. before 1910

. JQAW# P_1910_050 Oil on canvas 208 x 132 cm Signatur: John Quincy Ɑdams Private collection Austria

The billiard player pre-1910

. A young blond billiard player with a meager moustache leans against a pool table, his cue shouldered, his left hand, in which he holds a cigarette, hooked in his pants with his thumb. He wears gray trousers, a black [...]

Seated girl with bunch of flowers ca.1910

JQAW# P_1910_080 Oil on canvas 68 x 56 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Unknown private collection Image: Kinsky auction catalogue

A Roman couple ca. 1910

Bust portrait of a couple in antique (roman) style. Male portrait on the right: in side view, head and gaze directed to the left, wearing a light toga with a dark coverlet, the short hair strongly waved, around the neck a [...]

Female half-portrait in left profile view pre-1910

Half portrait of a lady in profile view left. The sitter sits in an armchair, looking into the distance. In the background a philodendron plant, on the wall two pictures in rich gold frames are partially visible. The painting [...]

Girl Portrait with play hoop pre-1910

Full-body portrait of a girl about 5 years old with both hands holding a play hoop. She wears a dress with embroidery decorations, her hair is held on the left and right with a stitch. Background: room interior with a curtain. The [...]

Male Portrait possibly Hermann Beck ca.1910

JQAW# P_1910_140 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Work lost. Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna

Hilde Radnay 1910

Description of the picture: see below. JQAW# P_1910_170 Oil on canvas (partially damaged) 130 x 195 cm Signature: lower left: John Quincy Ɑdams 1910 (indistinct) and lower right: John Quincy Ɑdams Private collcection [...]

Boy portrait Breycha-Vauthier 1910

. Full-length portrait en face of a standing 7-year-old boy looking kindly at the viewer. He wears tight black pants, black patent leather shoes, and a black fitted skirt whose collar and sleeves are decorated with white [...]

Boy portrait from wider Dobrzensky/Brudermann family pre 1910

JQAW# P_1910_200 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: unsigned Work lost Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna

Open air nude study circa 1911 WANTED!

Nude study in open landscape, in front of a tree branch with leaves. JQAW# G_1911_040 Lost painting ca. 1911, ca. 170 x 130 cm. Signature: not known. Unknown status and whereabouts.

Female nude at the lake shore 1911

Female nude study (knee portrait) in landscape on a lakeside. Nude standing, en face, slight side view, both arms raised and reaching for tree branches. Head raised, gaze turned to the sky. The nude stands in a forest, in [...]

Female nude in landscape 1911

Female nude in landscape (on lakeshore). The nude in standing position, only lightly supported by her left foot, hands slightly bent, fingers spread, hair pinned up in a knot at the back. She is standing on sloping meadow, [...]

Nude study at lake Wolfgang 1911

Full portrait of a slender, nude model standing on a stone on the lakeshore. Hair pinned back into a knot, upper body slightly tilted forward, pulling up a blanket halfway to the thigh. Water surface and landscape iridescently [...]

Chaconne - Painter Prinz and Harriet Adams 1911

. Image description see below. JQAW# P_1911_010 Oil on canvas ca. 200 x 230 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Private collection, USA Image: Reproduction New York Graphical Society

Ferdinand Nándor Prince Montenuovo 1911

. Full-length portrait in hunting costume, in open landscape, in the background snow-covered mountains. The sitter with sparse upper lip beard, shown from the side in a striding posture, his gaze turned towards the viewer. [...]

Portrait study 1911

Female bust portrait with slightly tilted head and intense gaze. Hair pinned up, one braid falling forward. Wide-cut dress, trimmed at the edge with antique style metal plates. Background heightened with charcoal and opaque [...]

Steffy Adams 1912

Full-length portrait in seated position on a blue-red armchair with woven seat; legs crossed, her right hand rests on her chin, her left hand rests on armrest. She wears a blue-gray velvet dress with white blouse and black [...]

Fenza Sobotka 1912

Full-length portrait sitting in left profile view. The sitter is sitting upright in a golden, throne-like antique Empire armchair with a single armrest on which her right hand is resting, playfully holding a long pearl necklace [...]

Prince Adalbert of Prussia 1912

3/4 Portrait standing en face, head slightly turned looking towards the viewer, but not looking directly at him. The sitter wears a blue navy uniform with gold lanterns and gold buttons, white vest and white shirt with stand-up [...]

presumably Sophie von Hohenberg ca.1912

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Alfred Count Salm 1912

. for picture description s. below. JQAW# P_1912_050 Oil on canvas ca. 235 x 200 cm (?) Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 12. Private collection USA Image: Künstlerhausarchiv, Vienna

Nolly von Seemann 1912

Full-body portrait, standing in a slightly oblique view, the head turned towards the viewer. The sitter has raised her forearms and is about to remove a long white glove, which is open at the ball of the hand, from her right [...]

Otto von Seybel 1912

. JQAW# P_1912_090 Oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm Signature likely: J. Q. Ɑdams 1912 Unknown private collection (Austria?) No picture available.

Amalie Schrantz 1912

. Full-length portrait (original), likely later cropped to a half-length portrait (see insert). The sitter is wearing a black dress with a wide, straight bustline and a fur-trimmed coat over it; holding in her left hand [...]

Jenny Gruder 1912

. JQAW# P_1912_110 Oil on canvas 124 x 94 cm Signature according to acution catalogue: John Quincy Ɑdams 1912 Unknown private collection (Austria?) Picture not available, work lost

Sketch for the painting Emperor Karl V. ca. 1913

For picture description see below. JQAW# G_1913_010 Oil on canvas ca. 53 x 61cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams Unknown private collection (USA?) Picture: private photograph of the seller, unrestored condition as of [...]

Moritz Sobotka 1913

. Half-length portrait, upper part of the body slightly turned, head tilted to the left, looking at the viewer. The sitter with blond-white moustache and monocle in his left eye wears a brown two-row traditional suit with [...]

Rudolf Léon Ritter von Wernburg 1913

. JQAW# P_1913_030 Oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm Signature: J. Q. Ɑdams 913 Unknown private collection (Austria?) Picture: Künstlerhaus Archive Vienna

Dr. Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn portrait study 1913

. Upper body portrait study in black tailcoat, white shirt with bow tie and white vest. He wears a moustache, on the nose a nose-pincher with oval glasses. JQAW# P_1913_040 Oil on cardboard 77 x 63 cm Signature: [...]

Dr. Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn 1913

. Upper body portrait, seated in a high chair. The sitter wears a black tailcoat, white shirt with bow tie, white vest and a wide ribbon of an unknown decoration. He wears a moustache, on the nose a nose-pincher with [...]

Lini von Seybel 1913

. JQAW# P_1913_060 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature likely: J. Q. Ɑdams 1913 Work lost No picture available.

Margarethe Countess Wurmbrandt ca.1913

. JQAW# P_1913_080 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: none recognizable Work lost Illustration: Westermanns Monatshefte 115. vol. part 1, 1913, p.100

Karl Prince Trauttmansdorff 1913

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Countess Martha Blome 1913

. JQAW# P_1913_100 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: unknown, but likely John Quincy Ɑdams 1913 Work lost No illustration available

Countess Ethel Orssich 1913

. JQAW# P_1913_110 Oil on canvas 180 x 135 cm (original), later reduced in size Signature (Partially cut off): (Joh)n Quincy Ɑdams 1913 Private collection UK Illustration: Reconstruction using a private photo

Dr. Gustav Marchet ca. 1912/13

. JQAW# P_1913_120 Oil on canvas dimensions unknown Signature: unknown but likely John Quincy Ɑdams Work lost

The amatuer 1914

. Description of the picture: see below. JQAW# G_1914_010 Oil on canvas min. 200 x 200 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1914 Portrait lost. B/W reproduction: Die Kunst 29, 1913, S.240

Emperor Franz Josef I 1914

Three-quarter portrait in sitting position. The 84-year-old emperor is sitting on a white-red-gold baroque armchair, his hands resting on his thighs. He wears his characteristic white-blond whiskers, his head is bald, his [...]

Archduchess Elisabeth Princess Windischgraetz with daughter Elisabeth 1914

. Description of the picture: see below. JQAW# P_1914_020 Oil on canvas. Dimensions unknown. Signature: none recognizable. Portrait lost. Photo B/W: MAK Archiv, Vienna.

Female portrait possibly Helene Fünfkirchen-Esterházy 1914

. JQAW# P_1914_030 Oil on canvas 180 x 135 cm Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1914. Private collection Austria

Standing girl with bunch of flowers 1916

Full body portrait of a standing blonde girl with a bunch of primroses in front of a landscape background. She wears a white dress with short billowed sleeves, in the hair a white mesh. According to the signature, this [...]