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Lot Essay
In 1788 George III suffered his first attack of porphyria. In 1789 he went to recuperate at the seaside town of Weymouth. He was later to purchase Gloucester Lodge on the Esplanade from his brother the Duke of Gloucester.
Charles Rosenberg was a silhouette painter on glass, believed to be Austrian by birth, and said to have arrived in England in the entourage of Queen Charlotte as a young page. Works by Rosenberg in the Royal Collection include silhouettes of the Princess Royal, and of Princesses Augusta, Elizabeth and Sophia painted during their stay at Cheltenham in 1788. Other royal commissions followed and Rosenberg used the title Profile Painter to their Majesties and Royal Family throughout the 1790s.
Charles Rosenberg was a silhouette painter on glass, believed to be Austrian by birth, and said to have arrived in England in the entourage of Queen Charlotte as a young page. Works by Rosenberg in the Royal Collection include silhouettes of the Princess Royal, and of Princesses Augusta, Elizabeth and Sophia painted during their stay at Cheltenham in 1788. Other royal commissions followed and Rosenberg used the title Profile Painter to their Majesties and Royal Family throughout the 1790s.