Lot 134: ROBERT THEER

Ferdinand (1793-1875), Emperor of Austria 1835-1848, in white coat with gold-embroidered collar and black stock, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon about his neck, the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Order of Maria Theresa, the breast-stars of the Imperial Austrian Orders of St. Stephen, Leopold and the Iron Crown (cracked)
stamped gilt-metal frame
oval, 1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) high

Ferdinand, son of Emperor Francis II of Austria and his second wife, succeeded his father as Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria in 1835 and abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew, Francis-Joseph. He married in 1831, Princess Anna of Savoy, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia, but died without issue.
A similar miniature by Adolf Theer is illustrated in H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1982, II, p. 130, no. 20.

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