Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ERIC UTTERHIELM (SWEDISH, 1662-1717)
Lot 267 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

ERIC UTTERHIELM (SWEDISH, 1662-1717)

Closed28 November 2012

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ERIC UTTERHIELM (SWEDISH, 1662-1717)
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715), Queen of Sweden, in gold-embroidered dress with drop-pearl and gem-set brooch at corsage, ermine-bordered blue dress, pearls in her upswept hair
enamel on copper
oval, 2¼ in. (57 mm.) high, gold frame

Sotheby's, Zurich, 6 May 1980, lot 165.

Specialist note

Eric Utterhielm was the sitter's valet as well as her portrait painter. For another enamel (cracked) of Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden by the same artist, see M. Olausson and J. Sjöholm, Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, II, illustrated p. 116.