A rare and important enamel full-length portrait of The King of Prussia engraved by Robert Hancock after a painting by Antoine Pesne painted between 1747-1748. Frederick the Great stands in full armour upon a hilltop pointing back at a battle represented in the background.

Literature:

See Bernard Rackham ‘The Engraver Hancock and Battersea Enamels’, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs Vol. 26, No. 142 (Jan., 1915). 154-156. Note, Rackham illustrates a similar example of a ‘Medallion of Enamel’ in the Schreiber Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pl. D.