The Music Room of Fanny Hensel
Julius Helfft
1849
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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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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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