Lot 161: JOSEPH CHARLES DE HAEN (DUTCH, 1777-1836)

William I Frederick of Orange-Nassau (1772-1843), King of the Netherlands 1815-1840, in blue uniform with gold buttons and gold epaulettes, gold-embroidered red collar, black stock, wearing the orange sash with blue stripes and breast-star of the Dutch Military Order of William
signed and dated 'De Haen. 1832' (mid-right)
oval, 1 1/2 in. (39 mm.) high, later set within a rectangular gold réverbère frame with blue enamel border, set in the cover of a circular gold-mounted tortoiseshell bonbonnière by Antoine Tardiveau, (fl. from 1798), Paris, 1798-1809

William I Frederick of Orange-Nassau, King of the Netherlands, son of William V and Frederica of Prussia, married Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia in 1792 and secondly in 1841, Henriette d'Oultremont.
Joseph Charles de Haen was court painter to King William I and two of his miniatures of the King's beloved daughter, Marianne (1810-1883) are in the Royal Dutch Collection (see K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, no. 237, p. 60, no. 73, illustrated p. 129).

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