Lot 283: NICOLAS-FRANÇOIS DUN (FRENCH, 1764-1832)

NICOLAS-FRANÇOIS DUN (FRENCH, 1764-1832)
Ferdinand IV (1751-1825), King of Naples and the Two-Sicilies 1759-1825, in blue coat with red collar, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Neapolitan Order of St Januarius, the red badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece and other orders
signed 'Dun' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 2 1/8 in. (53 mm.) high, silver frame, the border engraved 'Fernando IV Rey de Napoles a la Sυrυa Doña Josefa Ceballos y Alvarez de Faria Marquesa de Espeja', coronet surmount, mother-of-pearl reverse

M. Tomás, La miniature retrato en España, 1953, illustrated in colour pl. XL.

According to the inscription on the frame, given by the sitter to Doña Josefa Alvarez Cevallos and Faria, daughter of Don Pedro Cevallos, minister of Carlos IV and Fernando VII, and later ambassador to Naples and Vienna. She was the wife of Don Luis Alvarado (b. 1783), a distinguished solider in the War of Independence for which he was awarded the Cross of San Fernando.
Blas Pérez Collection, in 1953.
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 280.