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Description: | Acquisition: gift from Angel Carmey, 1762 Description: Whole length, standing slightly to left. facing viewer; short powdered wig; white stock, blue coat with gold frogging, lined with red and red cuffs over white shirt drawn in at neck, ruffled cuffs; cuirass, lined with red, over buff tunic and breeches; high boots and spurs; star of the Order of the Black Eagle on his left breast; black and silver tasselled sash; his left hand rests on hip above sword, his right, extended, holds a baton; helmet lined with red on ground to left.; landscape background with town, windmill, and trees in distance. Copy, perhaps by Georg Lisiewski, after the portrait painted by Antoine Pesne in 1729 (Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin; Stiftung Preussische Schloesser und Gaerten Berlin-Brandenburg). 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 Karl XII of Sweden (OP 8), 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: possibly by Georg Lisiewski, after Antoine Pesne | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=878... | Go to resource |
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