The Future King Joseph II, King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor (1741-1790) as a Child in a Floral Setting
Austrian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1745
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
625 x 791 mm
Place of origin
Austria
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207833
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The future King Joseph II, King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor (1741-1790) as a Child in a Floral Setting, Austrian c.1745. Inscribed on a scroll JOSEPHUS ARCHIDUX AUSTRIAE. The depiction of Archduke Joseph (1741-90) derives from a 1744 painting by Martin Mytens the younger of him and his sisters in the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna. He is holding up the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Provenance
Viscountess Lismore sale, Christie's, 7th July 1900, lot 121: bought Cohen; Lord Gainford, hsi sale, Sotheby's, 17th DEcember 1941, lot 146 (bought Captain Bambridge for £25), as Flemish School; bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Austrian School, artist