GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1760

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1760
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721-1792) holding a Marshal's baton in his right hand, in silver breast-plate and the uniform of the Old Brunswick Regiment in the Prussian Army, blue coat with white facings and gold button loops, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter and another cross, powdered hair en queue
embossed gilt-metal frame with shell surmount
rectangular, 2¼ x 1 13/16 in. (57 x 46 mm.)
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Younger brother of Duke Charles of Brunswick, Ferdinand was one of Frederick the Great's most able generals during the Seven Years War. He received the Order of the Garter in 1759. For a similar miniature of the sitter and his brother Charles, see R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge, 1992, p. 212, no. 432.

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