Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
BAVARIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850
Lot 134

BAVARIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 937

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BAVARIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850
Maximilian II (1811-1864), King of Bavaria 1848-1864, in red-piped blue coat with silver embroidered collar, silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing the red sash of the Royal Bavarian Order of St Hubert, dark moustache and sideburns
on ivory
oval, 1½ in. (38 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame

Specialist note

The sitter was the son of Ludwig I (see lot 131) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. In 1842, he married Marie of Prussia, with whom he had two sons, Ludwig (see lot 131) and Otto. Both sons succeeded their father in turn as King of Bavaria, but were declared mentally incompetent, and deposed.