ATTRIBUTED TO GUGLIELMO FAIJA (1803-1873)

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ATTRIBUTED TO GUGLIELMO FAIJA (1803-1873)
Leopold I (1790-1865), King of the Belgians, in the uniform of a colonel in the Belgian Cuirassiers, wearing the red sash and breast-star of the Belgian Order of Leopold, the star of the Order of the Black Eagle, and the badges of the Order of the Golden Fleece, St George, Saxe-Ernest, the Iron Cross, and other orders; red curtain background
on ivory
oval, 1 13/16 in. (46 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the inner surmount with ribbon and bow cresting

Provenance

Christie's, London, 30 March 1976, lot 39 (as Perhaps by Ross).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Leopold I was the youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf. He married, in 1816, Princess Charlotte of Wales, daughter of George IV of Great Britain. Princess Charlotte died following the birth of a stillborn child in 1817. Had she survived, she would have become Queen and Leopold Prince Consort.

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