The sitter was the son of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (see previous lot) and his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. In 1810, he married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, with whom he had nine children. For Stieler's original portrait, see U. von Hase, Joseph Stieler 1781-1858, Munich, 1998, figs. 64 and 65. In 1820 Muxel was appointed painter to the Court of Bavaria.