Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769-1829), full face in the uniform as Colonel of 4th Regiment of Hussars, scarlet coat with gold lacing, fur pelisse, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and the crosses of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and the badge of another order; cloud and sky background

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (1779-1855)
Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769-1829), full face in the uniform as Colonel of 4th Regiment of Hussars, scarlet coat with gold lacing, fur pelisse, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and the crosses of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and the badge of another order; cloud and sky background
signed, inscribed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Frederick Joseph Landgrave of Hesse Hombourg Born July 30. 1769. Died April 2, 1829. London, June 1838. Painted by Henry Pierce Bone. Enam:l Paint.r to her Majesty & their R. H. the Duchss. of Kent & Princess Victoria. From a Miniature by Wright:' and inversed 'PM'
enamel on copper
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with pierced palmette surmount and anthemion spandrels

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Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg succeeded his father as Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg in 1820. He married in 1818 Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte.
For a similar miniature of the sitter I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, see R. Walker, The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, nos. 976, 1022 and 1024.

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