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Jean Michelin: Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean Michelin  (1616–1670)  wikidata:Q6171195
 
Description French painter
brother of Jean Michelin (1623-1695)
Date of birth/death 1616 Edit this at Wikidata 16 March 1670 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Langres Paris
Work location
Paris (1660–1665); Paris (1680–1681); Hanover (1668–1680); Hanover (1686) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q6171195
Title
Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714)
Description
English: Portrait of Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), wife of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629-1698).
"This miniature of the Sophia, Electress of Hanover dates from c. 1670 and is rare example of the work of Jean Michelin, who is said to have been born in Langres, France, and died in Jersey. He became a member of the Académie Royale in 1668 and worked for the Hanoverian court from 1668 until 1686. The miniature features among a group of eighty-eight representing German and other families first recorded in Queen Caroline’s Closet at Kensington Palace in 1743."
Date circa 1670
date QS:P571,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolor on vellum
Dimensions height: 7 cm (2.7 in); width: 5.5 cm (2.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,5.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 420627
Object history Provenance: ?First recorded by George Vertue in Queen Caroline's Closet at Kensington Palace in 1743
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on the reverse: No. 34 Sophie Duchesse de Broun: et de Luneb: nee Princesse Palatine.
Source/Photographer Royal Collection RCIN 420627

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