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Francis Joseph, the eldest son of Archduke Francis Charles and his wife Sophia (daughter of Maximilian I, King of Bavaria), became Emperor of Austria when he was 18 years old.
Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916) as a young man, in pale blue uniform with gold embroidered red collar, red cloak, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon about his neck and the breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, brown hair and moustache
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AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850
Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916) as a young man, in pale blue uniform with gold embroidered red collar, red cloak, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon about his neck and the breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, brown hair and moustache
on porcelain
rectangular, 3 1/16 x 2¼ in. (78 x 57 mm.), foliate gilt-wood frame
Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916) as a young man, in pale blue uniform with gold embroidered red collar, red cloak, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon about his neck and the breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, brown hair and moustache
on porcelain
rectangular, 3 1/16 x 2¼ in. (78 x 57 mm.), foliate gilt-wood frame
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