ADALBERT SUCHY (BOHEMIAN, 1783-1849)
Lot 167

ADALBERT SUCHY (BOHEMIAN, 1783-1849)

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 2,250

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ADALBERT SUCHY (BOHEMIAN, 1783-1849)
Leopold of Bourbon-Naples, Prince of Salerno (1790-1851), in red-piped blue coat with red collar, black stock, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the breast-stars of the Royal Sicilian Orders of Saint Januarius, Saint Ferdinand and Merit, the Russian Order of Saint Andrew, and the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost
signed and dated 'Ad. Suchy. pxt. 1814.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Specialist note

In the same year, 1814, Suchy painted the sitter's mother, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples (Brewster Collection; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 293). for a miniature of the sitter's older brother, Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies, see the following lot.