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Count Sponneck
The Spon(n)eck family has an interesting origin. Count Leopold Eberhard von Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1670-1723) from a branch line of the house of Württemberg wedded in a morganatic marriage Anna Sabine Hedwiger. He nominated her, her children and her three brothers as counts of the Empire’s state (Reichsgrafen) Sponeck, named after a castle on the Rhine, which they never inhabited.
The sitter descends from the Danish branch of the Sponneck family, possibly Fredrik Wilhelm Rigsgreve von Sponneck (b. 23 March 1842 in Copenhagen – d. 11 June 1921 in Billeburg), Danish Diplomat
m. 30 April 1886 in Nordrup Kirke, Denmark
Countess Anna Sophie Brockenhuus-Schaack (1859-1932)
1861 Student, 1869 Cand.jur., 1871 Attaché in Parist i Paris, 1872 Assistant of the minister of education, 1880 legation secretary in London, 1884 legation secretary in St Petersburg, 1886 Royal marshal hunter, etc.
The Sponneck Saga (family history)
Date: 1890s
Format: Cabinet
Photographer: Charles Bergamasco (1830 – 1896 in St. Petersburg), Italian citizen. He moved to St Petersburg in the 1840s with his mother, a painter. He started as an actor at the French Theatre in St Petersburg but became interested in the daguerreotype process and went to Paris to study it. He returned to St Petersburg to open his own studio and after a few years became well known there and in Europe, winning prizes at exhibitions. Bergamasco was the very top photographer in Russia in the 19th century.
Location: St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt No 12
Count Sponneck
The Spon(n)eck family has an interesting origin. Count Leopold Eberhard von Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1670-1723) from a branch line of the house of Württemberg wedded in a morganatic marriage Anna Sabine Hedwiger. He nominated her, her children and her three brothers as counts of the Empire’s state (Reichsgrafen) Sponeck, named after a castle on the Rhine, which they never inhabited.
The sitter descends from the Danish branch of the Sponneck family, possibly Fredrik Wilhelm Rigsgreve von Sponneck (b. 23 March 1842 in Copenhagen – d. 11 June 1921 in Billeburg), Danish Diplomat
m. 30 April 1886 in Nordrup Kirke, Denmark
Countess Anna Sophie Brockenhuus-Schaack (1859-1932)
1861 Student, 1869 Cand.jur., 1871 Attaché in Parist i Paris, 1872 Assistant of the minister of education, 1880 legation secretary in London, 1884 legation secretary in St Petersburg, 1886 Royal marshal hunter, etc.
The Sponneck Saga (family history)
Date: 1890s
Format: Cabinet
Photographer: Charles Bergamasco (1830 – 1896 in St. Petersburg), Italian citizen. He moved to St Petersburg in the 1840s with his mother, a painter. He started as an actor at the French Theatre in St Petersburg but became interested in the daguerreotype process and went to Paris to study it. He returned to St Petersburg to open his own studio and after a few years became well known there and in Europe, winning prizes at exhibitions. Bergamasco was the very top photographer in Russia in the 19th century.
Location: St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt No 12