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Lot 73
Attributed to Evgraf Chemesov (1735-1765)
Portrait of Catherine II (1729-1796) mourning the death of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762)
Closed6 June 2016
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Attributed to Evgraf Chemesov (1735-1765)
Portrait of Catherine II (1729-1796) mourning the death of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762)
oil on copper
8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18 cm.)
wooden frame surmounted with a double-headed eagle, with a label on the backboard: 'C. George Thornton Esq/A Picture on copper/to be guarded against/wet which would spoil the painting/with best regards to his old/friend Baron Wolff written/by him in his 97th year of/age./Tunbridge Wells Sep 18th 1846.' and label on the frame: '1654/From the/Hanbury-Williams/Collection'
Portrait of Catherine II (1729-1796) mourning the death of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762)
oil on copper
8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18 cm.)
wooden frame surmounted with a double-headed eagle, with a label on the backboard: 'C. George Thornton Esq/A Picture on copper/to be guarded against/wet which would spoil the painting/with best regards to his old/friend Baron Wolff written/by him in his 97th year of/age./Tunbridge Wells Sep 18th 1846.' and label on the frame: '1654/From the/Hanbury-Williams/Collection'
Attributed to Evgraf Chemesov (1735-1765)
Portrait of Catherine II (1729-1796) mourning the death of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762)
oil on copper
8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18 cm.)
wooden frame surmounted with a double-headed eagle, with a label on the backboard: 'C. George Thornton Esq/A Picture on copper/to be guarded against/wet which would spoil the painting/with best regards to his old/friend Baron Wolff written/by him in his 97th year of/age./Tunbridge Wells Sep 18th 1846.' and label on the frame: '1654/From the/Hanbury-Williams/Collection'
Portrait of Catherine II (1729-1796) mourning the death of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762)
oil on copper
8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18 cm.)
wooden frame surmounted with a double-headed eagle, with a label on the backboard: 'C. George Thornton Esq/A Picture on copper/to be guarded against/wet which would spoil the painting/with best regards to his old/friend Baron Wolff written/by him in his 97th year of/age./Tunbridge Wells Sep 18th 1846.' and label on the frame: '1654/From the/Hanbury-Williams/Collection'
Probably: N. Voekov.
C. George Thornton, Tunbridge Wells (inscription on a label on the backboard).
A gift from the above to Baron Wolff, 18 September 1846 (inscription on a label on the backboard).
The Hanbury-Williams Collection (label on the frame).
Abraham Herenroth (1902-1993), New York in 1967.
C. George Thornton, Tunbridge Wells (inscription on a label on the backboard).
A gift from the above to Baron Wolff, 18 September 1846 (inscription on a label on the backboard).
The Hanbury-Williams Collection (label on the frame).
Abraham Herenroth (1902-1993), New York in 1967.
Probably: Exhibition catalogue, Istoricheskaia vystavka portretov lits XVI-XVIII vv., ustroennaia obshchestvom pooshchreniia khudozhnikov [Exhibition of historical portraits of the XVI-XVII centuries, organised by the society for the encouragement of arts], St Petersburg, 1870, listed p. 157, no. 563.
Exhibition catalogue, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present, New York, 1967, listed p. 51, illustrated p. 7.
Exhibition catalogue, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present, New York, 1967, listed p. 51, illustrated p. 7.
Probably: St Petersburg, Istoricheskaia vystavka portretov lits XVI-XVIII vv., ustroennaia obshchestvom pooshchreniia khudozhnikov [Exhibition of historical portraits of the XVI-XVII centuries, organised by the society for the encouragement of arts], 1870, no. 563, property of N. Voekov.
New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present, 14 June-17 September 1967.
New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present, 14 June-17 September 1967.
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