Discover noble, art collector Dominik Andreas I von Kaunitz (Count)

Dominik Andreas I von Kaunitz (Count)

male / Bohemian

noble, art collector

Name variations

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: Kaunitz von Sezima Austy, Dominik Andreas I von

Qualifications: noble, art collector
Kaunitz was raised on January 12, 1683 in the hereditary Austrian count; since 1685 he was a secret imperial council; he was admitted in 1687 in the Order of the Golden Fleece; since 1696 he was vice-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire; in 1698 Kaunitz commisioned a marble bust by the sculptor Jan Blommendael (1650-1707), probably he commisioned it while he acted as Imperial envoy in Holland, he purchased Dutch flower still lifes from the painters Johannes Christop Lotyn and Bowerie, who at that time were just becoming known (Mzykova 2012, p. 20)

Nationality/school: Bohemian

Born: Brünn (Südmähren) 1655

Deceased: Vienna (city) 1705-01-11

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Leopold Wilhelm von Kaunitz (1614-1655) and Maria Eleonore von Kaunitz (1623-1687). He married Marie Eleonore von Kauntitz (1656-1706), they had two sons: Franz Karl Joseph von Kaunitz bishop von Laibach (1676-1717), Maximilian Ulrich, Count von Kaunitz-Rietberg (1679-1746), and two daughters: Maria Eleonora von Kaunitz (1681-1723), and Maria Dominika Antonia von Kaunitz (1689-1756)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Blommendael, Jan

Blommendael made a marble bust of Kaunitz

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Biographical information

Active in

Italië 1671 - 1673
Grand Tour through Italy
Besançon 1673
attented the Nobility Academy
Frankrijk 1674
he went on a journey through France
Brno 1676
he became royal principal commissioner at the Diet of the Kingdom of Bohemia
München 1682
he was appointed as Imperial ambassador
Moravië (hist. regio)
visited Elector Maximilian II Emanuel, he and his wife were friends of the Elector
Wenen (stad)
visited Elector Maximilian II Emanuel
Engeland 1687
he was send to England on a diplomatic mission to include Jacob II in an alliance against Louis XIV
Parijs 1692
he was a diplomat, he commisioned a portrait by the French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)