Louis-Philippe of Orlans, King of the French 1830-1848, facing right in blue uniform with gold-embroidered oak leaf collar, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the red moir sash, badge and silver breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold; red drapery background

Louis-Philippe d'Orlans (1773-1850), son of beheaded 'Philippe-Egalit' and his wife Louise-Marie de Bourbon-Penthivre, married Princess Marie-Amlie of Bourbon-Naples in 1809. He became King of the French in 1830 after the abdication of King Charles X and reigned until the Revolution of 1848. He died at Claremont, formerly the home of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold.
The pair to this miniature, depicting Queen Marie-Amlie, was sold in these rooms, 17 October 1995, lot 110.