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HENRY COLLEN (BRITISH, 1798-1879), AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE (SCOTTISH, 1785-1841)
Lot 473

HENRY COLLEN (BRITISH, 1798-1879), AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE (SCOTTISH, 1785-1841)

Closed2 December 2015

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HENRY COLLEN (BRITISH, 1798-1879), AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE (SCOTTISH, 1785-1841)

Prince Frederick (1763-1827), Duke of York and Albany, in ceremonial Garter robes, red coat with gold embroidered collar, white silk-lined blue cloak tied at neck with gold and blue braid, wearing the chain of the Order of the Garter pinned at shoulders with white silk rosettes
Signed and dated '1828 / HCollen' (upper right) and signed, dated and inscribed on the backing card 'Painted by HCollen. 1828 / 37 Somerset Street / Portman Square / London. / from a Picture by Wilkie'
On ivory
Oval, 87 mm. high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with frosted gilt mount

Specialist note

The sitter was the second son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death from dropsy in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, King George IV. In 1791, he married Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia.
The present miniature derives from a full-size work painted by Sir David Wilkie in 1823, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. 2936), depicting the Duke of York at home in York House, reading. It was commissioned in 1818 by the Duke's Military Secretary, Sir Willoughby Gordon.