ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)

Frederick William II (1744-1797), King of Prussia 1786-1797, three-quarter length, in red-lined blue coat with silver-embroidered pink facings, frilled cravat and black stock, holding a stick in his right gloved hand, a black hat under his left arm, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle

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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Frederick William II (1744-1797), King of Prussia 1786-1797, three-quarter length, in red-lined blue coat with silver-embroidered pink facings, frilled cravat and black stock, holding a stick in his right gloved hand, a black hat under his left arm, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
rectangular, 3½ x 2 11/16 in. (87 x 69 mm.), wood frame
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Lot Essay

This miniature was re-used for the group portrait by König depicting Frederick William II and his two uncles Frederick the Great and Prince Henry, from the collection of King Louis I of Bavaria, now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Friedrich der Große, Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 1992-1993, p. 131, no. 47.

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