FRANZ LIEDER (GERMAN, 1780-1859)
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FRANZ LIEDER (GERMAN, 1780-1859)

Closed2 December 2015

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FRANZ LIEDER (GERMAN, 1780-1859)

Prince William of Prussia (1783-1851), in blue military uniform, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle associated with the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword, the cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Maria Theresa and the Royal Prussian Military Medal of 1813/1814, the badges of the Royal Prussian Order of the Iron Cross and of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George
Signed and dated 'Lieder / à Vienne / 1815.' (mid-right)
On paper
Oval, 126 mm. high, ormolu mount

With Gertrud Rudigier, Munich, by November 1994.

Specialist note

The sitter was a son of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. He married Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg, with whom he had seven children.