Ref: 991

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 signed on the obverse and dated, set in the original stamped gilt brass mount within rectangular burr wood frame

Dimensions: oval, 4 1/2inches high

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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. 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 Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonne, Comte de Chambord,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. Henri married Maria Theresia Erzherzögin von Österreich-Este, daughter of Franz IV Erzherzog von Österreich-Este and Maria Beatrice di Savoia, Principessa di Savoia, on 16 November 1846 at Brück, Germany.

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