Group of Miniature Awards of Friedrich Bury

Superb group of miniatures with order of Saint Anna with Imperial Crown.

Gold, enamel.

Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Leopold (received in 1815), Russian Order of St. Anne 1st Class, Commander's Cross of the Order of the White Falcon and French Legion of Honor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe owned almost identical group of awards https://asiamedals.info/threads/order-of-saint-anna-breast-star-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe.25790.

Collection of Bestand Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

 

Friedrich (Fritz) Bury (12 March 1763 – 18 May 1823) was a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a goldsmith and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and then with Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. In 1780 he visited Düsseldorf, and two years later went to Rome; thence to Dresden, and finally settled in Berlin, where he was patronized by the Queen of Prussia. He painted historical pictures and portraits.​