Creativity Dmitry Levitsky

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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.