Charles George Augustus, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1766-1806), facing right in blue coat with yellow facings, silver buttons and silver epaulette, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the breast-star and cross of an order, powdered hair

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GERMAN SCHOOL, 1786
Charles George Augustus, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1766-1806), facing right in blue coat with yellow facings, silver buttons and silver epaulette, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the breast-star and cross of an order, powdered hair
2¼ in. (58 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount with laurel and berry border, the reverse of the miniature inscribed with the sitter's name and date 1786

Exhibited

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 698, illustrated (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).

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Lot Essay

Prince Charles George Augustus was the eldest son of Prince Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Princess Augusta of Hanover (who was the first child of Frederick Louis Prince of Wales). His younger sister was Queen Caroline, wife of George IV. Prince Charles George Augustus married in 1790 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau, daughter of the Stadhouder Willem V.

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