Lot 277: JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (SWEDISH, 1769-1845)

JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (SWEDISH, 1769-1845)
Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837), King of Sweden 1792-1809, in blue military coat with ochre facings and collar, silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing orders including the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Swedish Order of the Seraphim and the jewel of the Order of St John
signed and dated 'Gillberg f 1797' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Munich, Kunstverein, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1912, no. 660 (lent by Milena Freifrau von Bassus).

Milena Freifrau von Bassus, in 1912.
Grand Duke of Hessen.
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 13 June 1956, lot 730.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 79.