Ferdinand II of Portugal
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Dom Ferdinand II, also known as Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and as "the King-artist", was King of Portugal from 16 September 1837 to 15 November 1853 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Maria
Portrait, 1861
Ferdinand II around age 24, standing next to a bust of King Pedro IV, c. 1840.
Bathed in soft light at Sintra’s Palácio da Pena, this marble bust of King Ferdinand II embodies the Romantic spirit of his reign and his devotion to art, architecture, and beauty—his legacy etched in Portugal’s nineteenth-century grandeur.
Prince Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and a general of cavalry in the Austrian Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic
Ferdinand II of Portugal
…while Ferdinand himself was a king-father during their reigns. Born Ferdinand August Franz Anton in Vienna on 29 October 1816, he was the eldest son of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Mária Antónia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, heiress to the House of Koháry. The younger Ferdinand grew up in several places: the family…
19th-century portrait of Ferdinand
Portrait of a young Prince Ferdinand by Herbert Smith after Johann Heinrich Schröder, 1844