Friederich II, the Great, a miniature portrait, Three quarter portrait of the King in the richly embroidered uniform of the I Guards Battalion with a marshal's baton. Miniature after a portrait by Pesne after 1755. Gouache on ivory, 95 x 103 mm, unsigned. The high quality and style indicate a work by the court miniaturist Anton Friedrich König (1722 - 1787). König was a student of both Pesne and Blesendorf and painted most of the surviving miniature portraits of Friedrich II, which were gifts given by the King. In an old gilt moulded frame 150 x 185 mm. High qu,


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