Frederick VI (1769-1829), Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg 1820-1829, in the uniform of the Colonel of the 4th Hussar Regiment, green coat with silver facings, fur bordered white cloak, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter, the crosses of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa and of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, and the badge of the Cannon Cross of Austria

细节

GIOVANNI TROSSARELLI (ITALIAN, B. C. 1760)
Frederick VI (1769-1829), Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg 1820-1829, in the uniform of the Colonel of the 4th Hussar Regiment, green coat with silver facings, fur bordered white cloak, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter, the crosses of the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa and of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, and the badge of the Cannon Cross of Austria
rectangular, 3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (98 x 75 mm.), gilt-wood frame

来源

Phillips, London, 12 December 1978, lot 188.

出版

R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge, 1992, p. 460, no. 1022.

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拍品专文

Frederick VI succeeded his father as Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg in 1820. He married Princess Elizabeth (see lots 316 and 335), daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte, in 1818.
For a miniature of the sitter signed and dated 1818 by Giovanni Trossarelli, see R. Walker (supra) no. 1022, and for another miniature of the sitter, see lot 337.