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Indistinctly signed on obverse, loosely attached to a tortoiseshell box lid with gold inlay (mount missing).
Circular, 67mm. (2 5/8ins.) diam.
Provenance: Santarelli Collection, Buenos Aires
Footnotes
King Miguel I was the second son of King João VI of Portugal and his queen Carlota Joaqiuna of Spain. Miguel was an avowed conservative an admirer of Metternich's Austria. He led two revolts against his father in the 1820s, earning himself a sentence of exile. In 1826 he was betrothed to his young niece Maria II da Glória. Miguel subsequently declared himself regent on February 26, 1828 and then took the throne as sole monarch on June 23, 1828 at which time he overthrew the liberal constitution that was given by his abdicated brother King Pedro IV.
In 1831 Miguel's brother Pedro abdicated the throne in his Empire of Brazil and occupied the Azores from whence he launched naval attacks on Portugal. After a civil war lasting three years, Miguel was forced to abdicate at Evoramonte in 1834 and was sent into exile by the victorious Pedro, who reinstalled his daughter Maria II da Glória on the Portuguese throne. Miguel lived the rest of his life in exile. In 1851 he married Princess Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wrtheim-Rosenberg, by whom he had six daughters and a son, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, who was the grandfather of the present day Portuguese pretender, Dom Duarte. Miguel died in Germany in 1866.
The present lot is a somewhat confusing depiction of Miguel, as the crown by his side bears some resemblance to the Imperial Crown of Brazil belonging to his brother Pedro.
An almost identical miniature, signed in the same indistinct fashion was sold in these rooms, 23 November 2005, lot 108.