William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751) as a young man, facing right in red velvet coat with gold buttons, silver breast plate and white cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter, long powdered curling wig

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1734
William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751) as a young man, facing right in red velvet coat with gold buttons, silver breast plate and white cravat, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter, long powdered curling wig
enamel on copper
oval, 2 in. (51 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with paste surround and ribbon and bow cresting, the reverse with long handwritten inscription

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William IV Henry Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau, son of John William Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau and Maria Louisa of Hesse-Kassel, was a grandson of Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz and Henrietta Amalia of Anhalt Dessau (see lot 62). He married King George II's daughter Anne, Princess Royal, in 1734.
A very similar enamel, certainly by the same hand, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue The Monarchy in Portrait Miniatures from Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, London, D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., 1993, no. 71.

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