Live Auction 7440Important Russian Pictures
Gregor Ivanovich Bothmann (d. 1891)
Lot 344

Gregor Ivanovich Bothmann (d. 1891)

Emperor Nicholas I in the full uniform of a Guard Cossack General

Closed28 November 2007

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GBP 120,500

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Gregor Ivanovich Bothmann (d. 1891)
Emperor Nicholas I in the full uniform of a Guard Cossack General
signed, inscribed and dated 'G. Bothmann/St Petersburg 1870' (lower left)
oil on canvas
111¾ x 80 in. (284 x 203 cm.)

Specialist note

An earlier version of this large portrait with a view of the Kremlin beyond (fig. 1), painted in 1856, used to hang in the private rooms of His Imperial Majesty in the Moscow Kremlin (see D. Skalon, The 100 years of the War Ministry, 1802-1902, St Petersburg, 1902, vol. XI, part I, p. 826, illustrated).