ERNST BASTANIER, signed and dated 1876

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ERNST BASTANIER, signed and dated 1876

Emperor William I of Prussia with moustache and broad sideburns, wearing a blue uniform with silver epaulets, studded with badges and breast-stars of Orders including the Pour le Mérite and the Iron Cross; enamel, oval -- 50 mm high, gold frame engraved with the sitter's name and dates

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William I (1797-1888), second son of King Frederick-William III of Prussia (see lot 104), became regent for his elder brother Frederick-William IV in 1858, and King of Prussia in 1861. He was proclaimed Emperor in 1871. He had married Augusta of Saxony-Weimar in 1829.
For other enamels by Bastanier, including the portraits of King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, dated 1894, see Sotheby's Geneva, 14 November 1985, lot 347.

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