Clemens Wenceslas of Saxony, Archbishop Elector of Trier (1739-1812), facing right in ermine cloak and white-bordered black bands, wearing black and white enamelled cross suspended from a red ribbon about his neck, powdered hair en queue

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FRANZ JOSEPH NOORTWYCK (1767-1788)
Clemens Wenceslas of Saxony, Archbishop Elector of Trier (1739-1812), facing right in ermine cloak and white-bordered black bands, wearing black and white enamelled cross suspended from a red ribbon about his neck, powdered hair en queue
signed and dated 'Noortwÿck. f: 1786.' (mid-right)
oval, 1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within black wood frame with gilt ribbon and bow cresting

Literature

G. Biermann, Deutsches Barock und Rokoko, Leipzig, 1914, II, p. LXXXIV, illustrated p. 700, no. 1219.
U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1931, vol. 25, p. 512.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 595.

Exhibited

Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Jahrhundert-Ausstellung Deutscher Kunst 1650-1800, 1914.
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 238 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).

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Lot Essay

Clemens Wenceslas, thirteenth child of Elector Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. He became Elector and Archbishop of Trier, Prince Elector of Augsburg and Prince-Propst of Ellwangen. Due to the French Revolution, he was depossessed of his Trier Electorate and emigrated to Bavaria. There he was well received by his nephew King Maximilian I Joseph who granted him a pension and a life guard. Despite the French invasion, Clemens Wenceslas was a great admirer of Emperor Napoleon.
In 1784, aged seventeen Noortwyck was appointed Cabinets-Miniaturmaler to Clemens Wenceslas.

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