Prince Henry of Orange-Nassau (1820-1879), in dark green coat with gold epaulettes, white silk waistcoat and shirt, black stock, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Order of the Dutch Lion and another badge

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JOHANN CONRAD HAMBURGER (GERMAN, 1809 - D. BEFORE 1870)
Prince Henry of Orange-Nassau (1820-1879), in dark green coat with gold epaulettes, white silk waistcoat and shirt, black stock, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Order of the Dutch Lion and another badge
signed 'C. Hamburger.' (lower left)
oval, 1½ in. (39 mm.) high, gilt-wood frame with beaded inner border

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Lot Essay

William Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands was a son of King William II and Anna Paulovna, Grand Duchess of Russia. He married Amalia of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach in 1853 and secondly in 1878, Maria of Prussia. The present miniature is strongly related to a full-length portrait of Henry by Nicolaas Pieneman of 1848 which has been reproduced in lithography by Franciscus B. Waanders. We are grateful to Dr Karen E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen, Director of the Iconografisch Bureau, The Hague for her help in the cataloguing of this miniature.

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