Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
 

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Bring to your attention

Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (daughter of Nicholas 1).

Oil board 38h32sm.Bez signature.

Question: can this be a Russian school?
In general, who could be the author of the portrait?

Thanks in advance.

Rather peculiar style of painting , such as the second third of the 19th century ( in style , but in fact, later on, of course, 1870 . , I suppose) , but hardly outstanding artist.
Theoretically, you can search, rummage around - it may be that the author can be found.

The artist probably Russian, although she had lived the past 15 years in Florence.

Spasibo.Portret apparently written shortly before the death of the princess in 1876, in St. Petersburg.

No matter written.
And if it shows ...
Portrait in a terrible state, background and details are ...
And why on the board?

At the court was full of good artists ...
?

Undoubtedly Maria Nikolaevna.Napisano very good and realistic.
Most likely the artist wrote Maria Nikolaevna in the last year of life and knew her well.
If it is good then pokapatsya and artist can be found.

Preservation certainly leaves much to be desired ... The back of the picture there is an inscription Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, it is certainly nothing to say, but it is possible to trace a portrait likeness with pictures of Princess recent years.

And not on a photographic card say?

I think not, not a photograph.


This, apparently, some artist already in years, began in 1830 and keep your style up to 1870's ...

Asphalt disease in pictures ...

On canvas (see item 66): http://www.andrewsmithandson.com/tex...1012/page2.htm ...