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| Auction House | Scheurleer (Bernardus) -- from catalog: Scheurleer | | Sale Location | Unknown, Hague, The, Netherlands | | Seller(s) | Kauchlitz Colizzi, Johan Andrea
from catalog: J.H. Colizzi | | Lugt Number | 7479 and 7483 | | Notes | The sale was originally scheduled to take place on November 14, but was postponed two weeks. The owner can be identified as the Czech musician Johan Andrea Kauchlitz (1742-1808), generally known as Johan Andrea Kauc(h)litz Colizzi. Besides being a musician, he was also active as a composer, herbalist, etcher and teacher in harpsichord and Italian. He is said to have added "Colizzi" to his name to support his qualifications as an Italian teacher -- a practice not uncommon during the period (see Mens & Melodie, 30, 1975, pp.104-106, 151-154). Before moving to Leyden in 1766 he had lived for a time in Brunswick, Germany, where he was active as a composer. In Leyden, where he was registered at the university as a teacher of Italian, he became acquainted with the dealer and auctioneer Louis Bernard Coclers (1741-1817), who lived there from 1769 until 1787 and through whom he may have acquired some of his collection. Coclers also painted and engraved Colizzi's portrait. In 1777 Colizzi was appointed music teacher for the stadholder's daughter Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina (1770-1819), princess of Orange-Nassau, at which time he moved to The Hague and took a residence in the Hoge Nieuwstraat. From 1777-1790 he worked as a music teacher and harpsichordist at the court. In 1790 his student married a prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and moved to Germany, upon which Colizzi was relieved of his position but given a substantial court pension. After 1793 he is recorded as living on his estate "Louisenburg" at the Bezuidenhout. He died aged 66 in August, 1808, just three months before the present sale. He left no descendants, so his estate was auctioned by the Hague bookseller Bernardus Scheurleer, probably at the latter's bookshop in the Veenestraat 152, although the catalogue does not say so. Colizzi's estate included 27 paintings. Unfortunately, the only copy of the catalogue has been misplaced and could not be consulted for the present index, but his collection presumably included J.F.A. Tischbein's portrait of Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. It portrays the princess standing before a harpsichord, holding a sheet of piano sonatas composed for her by Colizzi. The RKDH copy of the catalogue is (or was) annotated with a note indicating that the sale realized a total of fl. 3534:90. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | RKDH Not located, 1993. | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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