Lot 85
85
JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (1769-1845)
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JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (1769-1845)

Gustav IV Adolph, King of Sweden (1778-1837), facing right in blue coat and black stock, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Swedish Order of the Seraphim and the badge of the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword and the breast-star of the Order of St John of Jerusalem

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JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (1769-1845)
Gustav IV Adolph, King of Sweden (1778-1837), facing right in blue coat and black stock, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Swedish Order of the Seraphim and the badge of the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword and the breast-star of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
signed and dated 'Gillberg. Pinxit 1803.' (lower right)
2½ in. (63 mm.) diam., gold frame with glazed silk reverse
Provenance
Josef von Flesch (1871-1928), Vienna; (+) Wawra, Vienna, 12-13 May 1930, lot 37 (mis-catalogued as King Charles XIV, signature partly mis-read as 'Paris' instead of 'Pinxit').
Art trade, Malmö.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 293.
Exhibited
Vienna, Palais des K. K. Ministerrats-Präsidiums, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1905, no. 1412 (mis-catalogued, lent by Josef von Flesch, Vienna).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Gustav IV Adolph, King of Sweden 1792-1809, was the son and successor of King Gustav III. His hatred of Napoleon led him in 1805 to declare war on France and he abandoned Swedish neutrality. After several ill-fated political manoeuvres, he was arrested in a military coup and forced to abdicate in 1809. He was exiled with his wife Queen Frederike of Baden and their children but divorced his wife in 1812 and spent 25 years travelling in Europe before dying in St Gallen. He was succeeded by his uncle King Charles XIII.
For other miniatures of the sitter by Gillberg, see M. Olausson/J. Sjöholm, Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, I, p. 199, 207 and 211.

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