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Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Collection. By country American Drawings. French Drawings. Italian Drawings. Swiss Drawings. Other Countries. One of the finest watercolourists of the 19th century, Rudolf Alt was the son and pupil of the painter, watercolourist and lithographer Jakob Alt, whose lithographs he would colour in as a youth.

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Father and son worked and travelled together frequently in the s, and the younger artist continued to travel widely on annual study trips for the remainder of his career. These were views of the most picturesque sites of the Austrian Empire and Italy, as well as some more exotic views, and the watercolours were intended to be viewed behind a concave mirror in an illuminated peepshow box.

Rudolf Alt painted plein-air watercolour landscapes of views throughout the Austrian Empire, as well as in Italy, Switzerland and southern Germany. He also produced views of the interiors of churches, palaces and other buildings, all characterized by highly original viewpoints and an emphasis on picturesque detail. The s found the artist at the height of his powers, receiving numerous commissions for views of Vienna and other cities, as well as picturesque landscapes, from publishers and collectors.

The years of the succeeding decade, however, were more difficult. Having fled Vienna during the Revolution of , on his return found that commissions were few and far between, with many of his former clients having left the city. The events of the Revolution had also severely limited the amount of travel one could undertake beyond the limits of the city, and as a result he was forced to rehash old compositions and develop earlier studies into finished works.

He also began to suffer from hand tremors, and attempted to change his technique, experimenting with painting in gouache. By the middle of the decade, however, he had begun to receive commissions for interior views of palaces throughout the Empire, for which he gained a formidable reputation, and in he was invited by Czar Nicholas II to spend the summer in Crimea.