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Born 1719, Gotha [Thuringia] Died 1772, Carlton House [London] Augusta was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. She married Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George II who died in 1757 before becoming King. Augusta's role as collector or patron is perhaps most notable in ...
Died 1612, London [Greater London] Henry Frederick, was the eldest son of James I and Anne of Denmark. Rather than leaving him to be educated in Scotland when they moved to England in 1603, his mother kept him close and raised him at her court, full of culture, music and art. He received an advanced classical education and was intelligent ...
He was not permitted to go to England until his father took the throne as King George II of Great Britain on 11 June 1727. In fact, Frederick continued to be known as Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Hanover (with his British HRH style) even after his father had been created Prince of Wales.
15 Kimerly Rorschach's work has been vital to the resuscitation of Frederick's artistic patronage and collecting: see Rorschach, K., ‘ Frederick, prince of Wales, 1707–1751, as collector and patron ’, Walpole Society, 55 (1989–90), pp. 1 – 76 Google Scholar; and at greater length, idem, ‘Frederick, prince of Wales (1707–1751) as a patron of the visual arts: princely patriotism ...
George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 [a] – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 ( O.S.) until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent ...
Frederick Louis, prince of Wales (born Jan. 6, 1707, Hannover, Hanover—died March 20, 1751, London) was the prince of Wales, eldest son of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60) and father of King George III (reigned 1760–1820); his bitter quarrel with his father helped bring about the downfall of the King’s prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1742.
