Princess Frederika of Baden (1781-1826), Queen of Sweden 1797-1809, in Swedish court dress, lace-bordered low-cut black dress with white and black striped sleeves, gold chain belt set with Wedgwood medallions, gold tiara set with Wedgwood medallions in her upswept and plaited light brown hair

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JOHAN ERIK BOLINDER (SWEDISH, 1768-1808)
Princess Frederika of Baden (1781-1826), Queen of Sweden 1797-1809, in Swedish court dress, lace-bordered low-cut black dress with white and black striped sleeves, gold chain belt set with Wedgwood medallions, gold tiara set with Wedgwood medallions in her upswept and plaited light brown hair
signed with initial 'B:' (lower right)
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, circular gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse

Provenance

The Grand Dukes of Baden; Sotheby's, Baden-Baden, 9 October 1995, lot 1812 (as by Bossi).

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Lot Essay

Frederika Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden, daughter of Charles Louis of Baden and Amalia of Hesse-Darmstadt, married King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden in 1797. She was deposed from the throne together with her husband in 1809 and they went to live in Baden but her husband did not want to stay and they were divorced in 1812.
For an almost identical miniature by Franziska Schöpfer of the sitter, see K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 337, no. 422.
For a miniature of the sitter's eldest son, see the following lot.

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