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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)
Lot 159

SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 1,500

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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), as a young boy, in red coat, white shirt with upstand collar, fair hair on ivory
oval, 1¼ in. (31 mm.) high, gold frame with enamelled coronet surmount, the glazed reverse set with fair hair and centred with gold monogram WF with coronet surmount

Specialist note

The sitter was the son of Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester. He was a nephew of King George III (see lot 154) and in 1816, he married his cousin Princess Mary, daughter of George III. His late marriage, at the age of 40, resulted from his being encouraged to remain single in order to be a suitable groom for Princess Charlotte, heiress to the throne, had no other suitable prince been found. He married a few weeks after Princess Charlotte's marriage to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.