Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREAS THORNBORG (DANISH, 1730-1780)
Lot 269

ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREAS THORNBORG (DANISH, 1730-1780)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,750

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ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREAS THORNBORG (DANISH, 1730-1780)
Caroline-Mathilde (1751-1775), Queen of Denmark, in lace-bordered blue dress, ermine-bordered red cloak over her shoulders, pearl necklace, earring, pearls entwined with blue ribbons in her hair, wearing the Order of l'Union Parfaite
on parchment
oval, 2 1/8 in. (55 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with coronet surmount

Christie's, London, 3 March 1993, lot 45 (as by George Sykes).

Specialist note

Caroline-Mathilde (1751-1775), daughter of Frederick-Lewis, Prince of Wales and sister of King George III, married King Christian VII of Denmark in 1766. Her liaison with Johann-Friedrich Struensee, the Premier Minister and important reformer, ended with the divorce of the royal couple in 1772. Struensee was executed and Caroline-Mathilde banished and imprisoned in Celle where she died aged 24.
For a miniature by Andreas Thornborg of Caroline-Mathilde, Queen of Denmark, see T. Holck Colding, Miniature- og Emaillemaleri i Danmark 1606-1850, Copenhagen, 1991, illustrated in colour, plate volume, p. 119, no. 231.