BAVARIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850

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BAVARIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850
Maximilian II (1811-1864), King of Bavaria 1848-1864, in red-piped blue coat with silver embroidered collar, silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing the red sash of the Royal Bavarian Order of St Hubert, dark moustache and sideburns
on ivory
oval, 1½ in. (38 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of Ludwig I (see lot 131) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. In 1842, he married Marie of Prussia, with whom he had two sons, Ludwig (see lot 131) and Otto. Both sons succeeded their father in turn as King of Bavaria, but were declared mentally incompetent, and deposed.

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