Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
FRANÇOIS FERRIÈRE (SWISS, 1752-1839)
Lot 92 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

FRANÇOIS FERRIÈRE (SWISS, 1752-1839)

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 5,000

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FRANÇOIS FERRIÈRE (SWISS, 1752-1839)
Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1756-1817), in military uniform, gold-trimmed navy coat with red collar and gold frogging, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and several breast-stars, with powdered curling hair and black moustache
signed with intials and dated 'F.F. / 1805.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (75 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount in rectangular velvet-covered panel with easel-stand

Adolphus, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868-1927).
The Property of a Lady, from the Estate of the late the Most Honourable Adolphus, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G. (1868-1927); Christie's, London, 16 December 1975, lot 74.

Specialist note

The sitter was the second son of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg and Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. In 1784, he married Maria Czartoryska, with whom he had one child. After their divorce, he married Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, with whom he had five children. His siblings included Frederick I, the first King of Württemberg and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of Russia.
In 1804, François Ferrière left London for St Petersburg, where the present miniature was painted. A miniature of Duke Louis's son, Adam, painted by Domenico Bossi in St Petersburg in the same year as the present miniature (1805), was sold Christie's, London, 6 July 2005, lot 150.