Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily
Luisa of Naples and Sicily was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. She was born a princess of Naples and Sicily as a daughter born to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.
Portrait by Joseph Dorffmeister, 1797
Maria Luisa (right) with her younger sister Maria Amalia, by Angelica Kauffmann in 1782
The portrait in which Vigée Le Brun was “most reluctant” to finish, 1790. The painting is said to have modified.
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Ferdinand III was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824. He was also the Prince-elector and Grand Duke of Salzburg (1803–1805) and Grand Duke of Würzburg (1805–1814).
Grand Duke Ferdinand sitting in his library, 1797, after Joseph Dorffmeister
Ferdinand as a young boy