Nicolas De Largillière (Circle), Portrait of Frédéric III De Saxe-Gotha-Altenbourg

Nicolas De Largillière (Circle), Portrait of Frédéric III De Saxe-Gotha-AltenbourgThis early 18th century oil painting by an artist working in the circle of Nicolas De Largillire (1656 1746) depicts Frdric III, Duke of Saxe Gotha Altenbourg (1699 1772), shown here in youth and splendour. Clad in ceremonial armour and wrapped in the scarlet of command, he gazes outward with the calm assurance of rank. The composition is based upon an original portrait by de Largillire, painted in Paris around 1720 when Frdric was still a young

An early 20th-century portrait of a nonchalant man holding a cigar by Swedish painter

Overall size: 29” x 23” / 74cm x 59cm

Accurately rendering each surface with a keen understanding of light

It was probably produced by a student while studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

This charming copy is clearly by an accomplished hand and captures the essence of the original very nicely

There’s beauty yet it’s atypical

His son was the painter

wearing the black habit of the Society of Jesus

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GermanyCondition: Artwork presents well

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Where grandmother teaches her kin the hand-me-down skills of her ancestors and where prayers are said routinely before every meal at the table