# Portrait of Ferdinand VI of Spain [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUARDI, Gianantonio]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, mounted on hardboard, 104 x 82 cm ## Commentary Gianantonio Guardi worked as a painter in the services of Field Marshall Matthias von der Schulenburg for almost 17 years - from 1729 to 1746. Von der Schulenburg was one of the greatest art collectors of 18th century Venice, and could count 106 works from Guardi's school in his collection. Portraits of contemporary rulers were one of von Schulenburg's favourite motifs to collect. Among others, Gianantonio Guardi painted portraits of Philipp V, the first Bourbon to ascend the Spanish throne, his second wife Elisabeth Farnese, and his son and heir Ferdinand VI. He based these works on portraits carried out by Louis Michel van Loo. Ferdinand VI \(1713-1759\), called the Learned \(el Prudente\) and the Just \(el Justo\), was King of Spain from 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty. ## Related artworks - [Dergoumidas before the Grand Vizier]() - [Flight into Egypt]() - [Herminia and Vaprino Find the Wounded Tancred \(detail\)]() - [Herminia and Vaprino Find the Wounded Tancred]() - [Holy Family with St John the Baptist and St Catherine]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Minerva]() - [Portrait of Marshal Matthias von der Schulenburg]() - [Rest on the Flight into Egypt]() - [The Amorous Turk]() - [The Angel Appears to Tobias]() - [The Death of Joseph]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()