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Manner of George Dawe
Lot 16 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PRINCE IVAN OBOLENSKY

Manner of George Dawe

Portrait of Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825)

Closed2 June 2014

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GBP 37,500

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Manner of George Dawe
Portrait of Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825)
oil on canvas
34 7/8 x 25 3/4 in. (88.5 x 65.5 cm.)

Mrs P. Harding (label on the stretcher).
Prince Serge Obolensky (1890-1978) and Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902-1956), London, circa 1925.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Excluding the landscape, the present work closely relates to George Dawe's (1781-1829) 1825 Portrait of Alexander I against the Cameron Gallery (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg), in which the Tsar is depicted in a frock-coat and peak cap at Tsarskoe Selo, his favourite residence.