ATTRIBUTED TO JUDA LÖW PINHAS (GERMAN, 1727-1793) AFTER JOHANN GEORG ZIESENIS (DANISH, 1716-1776)

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ATTRIBUTED TO JUDA LÖW PINHAS (GERMAN, 1727-1793) AFTER JOHANN GEORG ZIESENIS (DANISH, 1716-1776)
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1721-1792), in the uniform of the Old Brunswick Regiment in the Prussian Army, blue coat with gold-embroidered white facings, gold-embroidered waistcoat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter and the cross of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem
on ivory
rectangular, 2.3/16 x 1.3/16 in. (55 x 46 mm.), gilt-metal mount with foliate corners

Provenance

With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, as advertised in Weltkunst, 15 March 1982, p. 666 (as 'August Prinz v. Preussen, von A. F. König, circa 1755').

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the fourth son of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. A successful Field-Marshal, during the Seven Years' War, he repelled attempts by the French to occupy Hanover.
A replica in identical frame is described and illustrated in Stefanie K. Werner's exhibition catalogue Miniaturen: Große Malerei auf kleiner Fläche, Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Burg Dankwarderode, 2010, pp. 40-41, no. 13.
Two slightly later miniatures of the present sitter are illustrated in K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 253, nos. 273-274.

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