Lot 150: DOMENICO BOSSI (ITALIAN, 1765-1853)

Duke Adam of Württemberg (1792-1847), in red coat with gold-embroidered red facings, gold tassels and buttons, fur collar and dark cravat, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Württemberg Order of the Golden Eagle
signed and dated 'D: Bossi Pinxit 1805' (lower left)
oval, 2 15/16 in. (75 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with silk reverse

Royal Wurttembergian Court Art Dealer Fritz Hoffmeister, Hofkunsthandlung Louis Rath, Stuttgart.
Thence by descent.

Duke Adam was the son of Duke Louis of Württemberg from his first marriage to Princess Marie Czartoryski (divorced in 1793). A nephew of King Frederick I of Württemberg (see lots 146 and 147), he was a Prussian General and Adjutant-General to the Emperor of Russia. The present miniature was painted in St. Petersburg where Domenico Bossi worked from 1802.

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