Artist Index: Prussia

Photographer: Lutze & Witte. Portrait of Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Bonaventura Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1794-1865). Late 1850s. Salt print. 23,5 x 19,5 cm (oval). Mounted to original board (slight foxing) with gilt border, signed by the sitter in ink below the image on the mount.

After a short military career in West Prussia, Count Finck von Finckenstein took over the inheritance of his family in 1813. In 1846, he became Chief Marshal of the Kingdom of Prussia. Later he was a member of the Provincialparlament of the province of Prussia and deputy marshal there. In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurter Unionsparlament, which was formed to discuss a new constitution. From October 12, 1854 to January 19, 1865 he was a member of the Preußische Herrenhaus. – Finely retouched, overpainted print in very good condition.