WILLIAM ESSEX (1784-1869)

King William IV (1765-1837) when Duke of Clarence, facing left in dark blue coat with gold buttons, white waistcoat and cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and the badge of the Order of Bath on a red ribbon about his neck; draped claret-coloured curtain background

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WILLIAM ESSEX (1784-1869)
King William IV (1765-1837) when Duke of Clarence, facing left in dark blue coat with gold buttons, white waistcoat and cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter and the badge of the Order of Bath on a red ribbon about his neck; draped claret-coloured curtain background
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence W. Essex. P.^t 1828 after the Original picture by H. Dawe. Esq.^r'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 2 15/16 x 2 7/16 in. (76 x 61 mm.)

Lot Essay

For a larger miniature of William IV when Duke of Clarence holding a paper inscribed The Freedom of the City of Bath, attributed to Charles Jagger, see R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge, 1992, no. 834, pp. 340-342.

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