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DUTCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815
William I Frederick of Orange-Nassau (1772-1843), King of the Netherlands 1815-1840, in blue uniform with gold epaulettes and collar, wearing the sash and the breast Star of the Order of the Garter; curtain and pillar background
signed, 'IWP' (mid-left)
on ivory
rectangular, 2½ in. (65 mm.) high, in gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown
William I Frederick of Orange-Nassau (1772-1843), King of the Netherlands 1815-1840, in blue uniform with gold epaulettes and collar, wearing the sash and the breast Star of the Order of the Garter; curtain and pillar background
signed, 'IWP' (mid-left)
on ivory
rectangular, 2½ in. (65 mm.) high, in gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown
Provenance
Almost certainly given by William I Frederick of Orange-Nassau, King of the Netherlands, to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769 –1822), mounted to the cover of a gold snuff box, following the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and by descent.
Literature
Photographed in situ in the library at Wynyard Park, County Durham, circa 1890.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 113.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 113.
Engraved
Special notice
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