Four Late 17th /18th Century Picture Frames at Rosenborg Castle.

 Four Late 17th /Early18th Century Silver Filigree Picture Frames, 

at Rosenborg Castle. Copenhagen.

All four pictures signed by Princess Sophie Hedevig, 1691, (1677-1735).

7-67: Allegorical motive in a frame of silver filigree. 

7-69: Bouquet of flowers, in a frame of silver filigree. 

7-71: Allegorical motive in a frame of silver filigree. 

7-77: Allegorical motive with the cipher of the artist’s mother, in a frame of silver filigree. 

Mentioned as being at in Rosenborg, 1696.

Princess Sophie Hedevig was the daughter of Christian V and Charlotte Amalie. She was the sister of Frederik IV.

 

As a child, Sophie Hedevig was engaged to Prince John George of Saxony but the engagement was dissolved. Attempts to arrange a marriage between her and Charles XII of Sweden and later the King of Rome, Joseph I, were also unsuccessful, and she stayed unmarried throughout her life. She lived mostly with her mother, who died in 1714. 

Following the marriage between her brother Frederik IV and Anna Sophie, Sophie Hedevig and her brother Carl left the Court. She moved to Vemmetofte on the peninsula of Stevns. Here she established a foundation for noble ladies in her will.

I am very grateful to Peter Kristiansen, Curator at Rosenborg Castle for supplying me with these and other photographs of objects at Rosenborg.

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An 17th/18th Century Silver Filigree Mirror Frame.

Size 27.5 x 22 cms.

Previously with Dealer Guus Roell.

Autumn Catalogue 2015.

http://www.guusroell.com/Roell_Art_Antiques_Fall_2016.pdf

I am very grateful to Zebregs Roell of Amsterdam and Maastricht for allowing me to use their photographs.