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ATTRIBUTED TO JUDA LÖW PINHAS (GERMAN, 1727-1793) AFTER JOHANN GEORG ZIESENIS (DANISH, 1716-1776)
Lot 189

ATTRIBUTED TO JUDA LÖW PINHAS (GERMAN, 1727-1793) AFTER JOHANN GEORG ZIESENIS (DANISH, 1716-1776)

Closed27 November 2013

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ATTRIBUTED TO JUDA LÖW PINHAS (GERMAN, 1727-1793) AFTER JOHANN GEORG ZIESENIS (DANISH, 1716-1776)
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1721-1792), in the uniform of the Old Brunswick Regiment in the Prussian Army, blue coat with gold-embroidered white facings, gold-embroidered waistcoat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter and the cross of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem
on ivory
rectangular, 2.3/16 x 1.3/16 in. (55 x 46 mm.), gilt-metal mount with foliate corners

With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, as advertised in Weltkunst, 15 March 1982, p. 666 (as 'August Prinz v. Preussen, von A. F. König, circa 1755').

Specialist note

The sitter was the fourth son of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Antoinette Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. A successful Field-Marshal, during the Seven Years' War, he repelled attempts by the French to occupy Hanover.
A replica in identical frame is described and illustrated in Stefanie K. Werner's exhibition catalogue Miniaturen: Große Malerei auf kleiner Fläche, Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Burg Dankwarderode, 2010, pp. 40-41, no. 13.
Two slightly later miniatures of the present sitter are illustrated in K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 253, nos. 273-274.