Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13885

    Portrait of Frederick William IV, King of Prussia

    Date
    1844
    Sitter
    King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1795 - 1861, German)
    Creator
    T Smyth, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Charles Baugniet (1814, Belgian) , Painter
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 222mm
    width (print): 151mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, standing facing forwards and looking off to the left as viewed. He wears short double-breasted military coat with epaulettes and has a sword hilt at his left hip. He is decorated in insignia on his left breast and has five medals on ribbon across his chest.

    Inscribed ‘T. SMYTH. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, -DRAWN BY M BAUGNIET.’

    Frederick William IV (1795-1861) King of Prussia was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p61
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