Portrait Amalia, Princess, Daughter of King George II of England (1711-1786)

Portrait of Amalia Sophie, Princess of Great Britain. She was the second daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland and came from the house of Hanover. The British princess remained unmarried. Georg Friedrich Händel taught her music, and she later remained one of his most loyal supporters. On the leaf, it is depicted as a half-figure in the three-quarter profile with head facing to the left, her eyes looking forward. She wears a precious dress, a ermine fur over her left arm and bead ornament in her long hair. The effigy is placed in an oval frame, leaning on a small postament with inscription in front of a wall with a kind of brick pattern. On the left and right of the postament are a few plant garladen. A look at the collection of the British Museum in London shows that the stecher probably uses Hans Hysing’s portrait of the British princess and also stabbed other variants of his leaf here. The Duke August Library in Wolfenbüttel and the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg each have a leaf in their collections. Signature: Sysang sc. Caption: Amalia Princess of Engelland. (Stiftung Händel-Haus Halle Foundation)