Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JOHANN HEUSINGER (GERMAN, 1769-1846)
Lot 209

JOHANN HEUSINGER (GERMAN, 1769-1846)

Closed27 November 2013

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JOHANN HEUSINGER (GERMAN, 1769-1846)
Prince Frederick Ludwig of Prussia (1794-1863), in blue coat with silver-embroidered red collar, silver aiguillettes, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle and the cross of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle
signed with initials and dated 'I. H. p. &. c. 1812.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (75 mm.) high, brass frame with pearl surround, the reverse engraved 'Prince / Frédéric / de / Prusse'

Sotheby's, London, 20 July 1981, lot 45.

Specialist note

The sitter was the eldest son of Prince Louis Charles of Prussia by his wife Duchess Frederica of Mecklenberg-Strelitz. In 1817, he married Princess Luise of Anhalt, daughter of Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg. They had two sons.
A similar miniature, in which the sitter is wearing a slightly different uniform, was sold within a panel of six other miniatures depicting the sitter's family, Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1982, lot 27a.