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Claudia Hill
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Medium
watercolour on ivory
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
signed on the obverse and dated 1830
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Dimensions
11.40cm high
( 4.49 inches high)
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Provenance
Provenance: It is believed Charles X presented this to James Grieve Esq., of Ord House, Berwick upon Tweed, after Charles had been exiled from France in 1830. Thence by family descent.
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Condition:
excellent
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Description / Expertise
Gugliemo Faija, 1830
A fabulous portrait of Henri Duc de Bordeaux (1820-1883) aged ten, wearing uniform with silver epaulettes, white cross sash and belt with gold buckle
set in the original stamped gilt brass mount within rectangular burr wood frame
Faija (1803-1861) was a pupil of Comte in Naples and later of Frederic Millet in Paris where he exhibited at the Salon from 1831 to 1837. He settled in London in 1838 where he worked for the Royal Family and exhibited at the Royal
Academy.
Henri,was the grandson of King Charles X of France, the posthumous son of Charles's younger son Charles, Duc de Berry, who had been assassinated several months before Henri's birth. Until his grandfather's abdication, he was known as the Duc de Bordeaux.
In 1830, Charles and his elder son the Dauphin abdicated in favour of
Bordeaux, whose supporters proclaimed him Henry V. However parliament instead decreed that the throne should go to a distant cousin, the Duc d'Orléans, who became Louis-Philippe, King of the French.
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