August the Strong

According to family tradition from the collection of Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (* 1661, † 1747), General Field Marshal in Venetian service, given to him by Augustus the Strong; in his collection since at least 1736, if not before 1723 (Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg owned two portraits of King Augustus the Strong. If family tradition is correct, this painting must have been the larger of the two, described as a half-length figure, as the other is regularly described as "wearing a hat with a white plume of feathers"; one of the two paintings went to the Hehlen branch of the von der Schulenburg family in 1774); as late as his death in Verona on 14. 3. 1747, inventoried in August 1747 in the "Camera Scura" in the Palazzo Loredan (later called "dell'Ambasciatore") in Venice, which he had lived in for a long time; then transferred to the von der Schulenburg family palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstraße; Fideikommiss Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg; through separation of inheritance into the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family; Wolfsburg Castle (until 1932 Gardelegen County, Province of Saxony; then Gifhorn County, Province of Hanover; today the City of Wolfsburg); in 1942, after the Wolfsburg was relinquished by the von der Schulenburg family, moved to the newly built Neumühle Castle near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark County of Salzwedel; former location there: Hall, 2nd upper floor; left behind in 1945 during the flight from Neumühle Castle before it was taken over by the Red Army; Neumühle Castle was assigned to the Soviet occupation zone and expropriated; whereabouts unknown