Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, workshop or circle of - PORTRAIT OF FRIEDRICH II., LANDGRAVE OF HESSEN-KASSEL - image-1

Lot 37 Dα

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, workshop or circle of - PORTRAIT OF FRIEDRICH II., LANDGRAVE OF HESSEN-KASSEL

Auction 953 - overview Cologne
20.03.2010, 00:00 - Paintings 15th - 19th Centuries
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 5.880 € (incl. premium)
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Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, workshop or circle of

PORTRAIT OF FRIEDRICH II., LANDGRAVE OF HESSEN-KASSEL

Oil on canvas. 147 x 109,5 cm.

Friedrich II. of Hessen-Kassel (1720-1785), who was married to a daughter of King Georgs II. of Great Britain, was in 1741 investitured into the Order of the Garter. During his visit to Clemens August, archbishop of Cologne, in Neuhaus Castle in 1749 he converted to Catholicism. 1760 he succeeded his father Wilhelm VIII. as Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel.
Several versions of this portrait exist, of which the one in the Marburger Universitätsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Marburg, is closest to this painting.

The painting has damages.