Daniel SAINT, after. BAENE.
"Portrait of Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1784-1844) wearing the insignia of the Red Eagle and the Black Eagle of Prussia"
Oval miniature signed on the right.
7 x 4,8 cm.
Presented in a frame to suspend, in pomponne, with decoration of friezes and crown of laurels.
Reverse in blue tinted glass (accident).
87 x 70 cm.
A.B.E.
Biography:
At the death of his father, which occurred in 1806, he inherited a duchy occupied by Napoleonic troops and administered by France. When the Treaty of Tilsitt was signed on July 7 and 9, 1807, his duchy, initially dissolved, was returned to him thanks to the intervention of Tsar Alexander I. He was the father of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
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