LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED 'EL CANARIO' (SPANISH, D. 1850)

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LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED 'EL CANARIO' (SPANISH, D. 1850)
Isabella II (1830-1904), Queen of Spain 1833-1868, in white dress, wearing the blue and white striped moiré sash of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III, holding a bouquet of flowers, a crown and scepter on a red velvet cushion to her right; column and mauve curtain background
signed and dated 'L Cruz ã 1836.' (lower right)
on ivory
rectangular, 6 1/8 x 4¾ in. (156 x 121 mm.), stamped gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 18 May 1994, lot 373 (with a portrait of Queen Maria Christina of Spain).
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 342.

Literature

M. Tomás, La miniature retrato en España, 1953, illustrated in colour pl. LXXXI.
C. Espinosa Martín, Las miniaturas en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2011, pp. 56 (as 'un magnífico retrato de Isabel II'), 58, footnote 2.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Isabella II, eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, came to the throne as a child but her succession was disputed by the Carlists who refused to recognise a female sovereign. After a turbulent reign, maintained by the support of the army, she was finally deposed in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1868 and abdicated in 1870. Her son, Alfonso XII became king in 1874.

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