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Attributed to Johann Henri SCHEFFEL (1690-1781)
Portrait of …
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Attributed to Johann Henri SCHEFFEL (1690-1781)
Portrait of …
See original version (French)
Lot no. 32
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Attributed to Johann Henri SCHEFFEL (1690-1781)
Portrait of Count Moritz Ulrich von Putbus, 1699-1769
Canvas.
Inscription at top, partly faded: Moritz
Ulrich 1, graf und herr zu Putbust, geb 1699, gest 1769. On the back: formerly inscribed on the original canvas Moritz Ulrich 1, graf und herr zu Putbust, geb 1699, gest 1769 repeating the wording, slightly faded, on the painting top right.
76.5 x 63 cm
Our model studied in Holland and France.
Lord of Putbus on the island of Rugen, he enlarged the castle and had a park built in the Baroque style. In 1728, he was
he was appointed hereditary Marshal of Pomerania by the King of Sweden, and in 1731 he was given the title of Swedish Count. President of the Court of Wismar until 1763, Commander of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
He was awarded Sweden's highest honour, the Order of Seraphim, of which he wears the blue cordon and breast plate in this portrait
and the Order of St John of Jerusalem, conferred by the Evangelical branch.
There is an engraved portrait in reverse, with the Putbus coat of arms. His son Friedrich was painted full-length in the uniform
by Anne Rosine Lisiewski de Gasc (Granitz Castle).
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