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Dear Sirs, No one among you a specialist in creativity Levitsky, DG? I am writing at the request of my friends. They own a portrait of PI Potemkin operation Godfrey Kneller, presumably a copy. Long-dead direct descendant of the picture implied that this work Levitsky. I need to know, does Levitsky all copies and copies of the works of British artists in particular. This portrait has damage in the right corner. The original was Grigory Potemkin, which he later donated to the Hermitage. There have been any cases where the artists themselves were copying the damaged work? Portrait or a copy inherited the family of Count Riboper, the former a relative of Mr. Potemkin. Is it possible in principle, to determine whether the original or a copy of the picture? Signature there, local experts have found. On a good expert from my friends of not. They want to sell the portrait, but buyers want to know the author or the time of writing, painting. Can you identify something in the photos? If there is among you a connoisseur of painting 18 -19 centuries, write me, please, email. Thank you.
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Evgeniya_K, if I understood you correctly, you want to know whether a copy (stored in your contacts) with a portrait by Kneller from the Hermitage, the work of Levitsky?
Levitsky made-up versions of their works. Could he make a copy of the work of artist Godfrey Kneller? That we can not exclude. Theoretically it is possible.
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The original is Grigory Potemkin, which he later donated to the Hermitage.
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More precisely, this portrait was moved to the Hermitage just after the death of Gregory Potemkin in 1792 to the year. Perhaps the copy was made by request of relatives of Count Riboper. And perhaps a copy made Levitsky (the artist died in 1822). But it must be proved. First we need to determine the age of the copy. This is necessary in any case, if the work they want to sell.
Portrait of Pyotr Potemkin Godfrey Kneller (oil on canvas 135h103.5 cm in 1682) from the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg):