Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED 'EL CANARIO' (SPANISH, D. 1850)
Lot 291 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED 'EL CANARIO' (SPANISH, D. 1850)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 12,500

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LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED 'EL CANARIO' (SPANISH, D. 1850)
Isabella II (1830-1904), Queen of Spain 1833-1868, in white dress, wearing the blue and white striped moiré sash of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III, holding a bouquet of flowers, a crown and scepter on a red velvet cushion to her right; column and mauve curtain background
signed and dated 'L Cruz ã 1836.' (lower right)
on ivory
rectangular, 6 1/8 x 4¾ in. (156 x 121 mm.), stamped gilt-metal mount

Christie's, Geneva, 18 May 1994, lot 373 (with a portrait of Queen Maria Christina of Spain).
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 342.

Specialist note

Isabella II, eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, came to the throne as a child but her succession was disputed by the Carlists who refused to recognise a female sovereign. After a turbulent reign, maintained by the support of the army, she was finally deposed in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1868 and abdicated in 1870. Her son, Alfonso XII became king in 1874.