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Martin Scheffel Sold at Auction Prices

Miniature painter, Painter

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Nov. 28, 2006
MARTIN SCHEFFEL (SWEDISH, 1729-1783)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
A gentleman, in purple coat with black collar, purple waistcoat with gold buttons and lace cravat, powdered wig en queue, holding a black hat under his right arm; draped green curtain with gold tassels, pillar and ledge background signed and dated 'M. Scheff[el]. pinx: Stockholm. 1769.' (lower right) on parchment rectangular, 1 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (45 x 60 mm.), gilt-metal frame
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May. 28, 2002
MARTIN SCHEFFEL (1729-1783)
Est: $1,168 - $1,752
Gustav III (1746-1792), King of Sweden 1771-1792, facing right in violet coat and lace cravat, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moir‚ sash and breast-star of the Royal Swedish Order of the Seraphim and the cross of the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword on a yellow ribbon about his neck and the badge of the Royal Swedish Order of Wasa at his left breast on paper oval, 1 3/8 in. (35 mm.) high, silver-gilt mount NOTES Gustavus III, King of Sweden, son and successor of King Adolf Frederick and Louisa Ulrika, sister of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia, ascended the throne in 1771. He brought about a sea of change with his reign and his court became a northern Versailles. He sent Count Hans Axel Fersen to rescue the French Royal family at the outbreak of the French Revolution and planned to use his Army to go to the help of Louis XVI but in March 1792, he was shot by Johan Jakob Anckarst”m during a masked ball at the Royal Opera House and, after a horrible agony, finally died of gangrene. For other miniatures by this interesting artist, see M. Olausson/J. Sj”holm, Nationalmuseum. Svenska och ”vriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, II, pp. 56-57.
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