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Description: | Acquisition: gift from Angel Carmey, 1762 Description: Whole length, standing in a mountainous landscape facing viewer; receding brown hair; black stock, deep blue coat with gold buttons, long pale yellow tunic with matching gloves and sword belt, buff breeches, and long boots with spurs; his right hand, gloved, points towards fortified gateway to left with smoke rising; his left hand grasps hilt of sword; cocked hat under his left arm; castle or fort in the background; stormy sky. Copy of a portrait painted by David von Krafft, perhaps that of 1700 (Gripsholm Castle 1267, Stockholm), or a variant of the same type in Drottningholm Castle (no.376). The besieged fort in the background suggests that the portrait was painted to commemorate the king's death at the siege of Frederickshald in 1718. The portrait was given to the University in 1762: 'Angel Carmey F. Antq Soc donavit Effigies Car. XII Regis Suecorum/ Fred. II. Regis Borussorum.' (Registrum Benefactorum, for the year 1762, Library Records b.903, Bodleian Library, II, [p.201]) The frame is identical to that which surrounds the portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (OP 10), also given by the antiquarian, Angel Carmey, at the same time. The two portraits hang opposite each other in the South Writing School. External Link: Oxford Portraits website | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: by Georg Engelhard Schroder, after David von Krafft | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=876... | Go to resource |
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