Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

DAVID GIBSON | Portrait of Count Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782-1856)

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May 7, 04:03 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DAVID GIBSON

Fl. 1788 - 1802

PORTRAIT OF COUNT MIKHAIL SEMYONOVICH VORONTSOV (1782-1856)

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, ormolu frame;

signed and dated lower right: 1802

7.1 by 5.5 cm., 2⅞ by 2¼ in.

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Bernard Woolaston;

sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1984, lot 80

This miniature was painted in London when the sitter's father was Russian ambassador. Vorontsov subsequently pursued a distinguished milliary career in the Napoleonic wars and most notably the Caucasian war (1844-1853). He married in 1819 Elizabeth Branicka, great niece of Potemkin.