Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia 1797-1840, in blue coat with red-bordered pale blue collar and gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the badges of the Imperial Russian Order of St. George, the 1813 Iron Cross of Prussia, the Prussian 1813-1814 Medal, and the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, and the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815/1820
Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia 1797-1840, in blue coat with red-bordered pale blue collar and gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the badges of the Imperial Russian Order of St. George, the 1813 Iron Cross of Prussia, the Prussian 1813-1814 Medal, and the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, and the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
bearing signature 'Lieder' (mid-left)
watercolour on card
oval, 5½ in. (140 mm.) high, reeded gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Mr A. M. van den Brink; (+) Bonhams, London, 12 July 1993, lot 137 (as by Lieder).

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Lot Essay

Frederick William III, son of Fredrick William II and Frederica of Hesse-Darmstadt married Louisa of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1793 and secondly in 1824 Augusta of Harrach, Princess of Liegnitz.
For a similar miniature of the sitter, see K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, Catalogue of the Portrait-Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 269, no. 303.

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