Portrait of Child winter dress 19C Oil painting by Russian master ^Sale

Portrait of an adorable little boy. Beautiful and professional miniature, the features and emotions of the boy are very accurately conveyed. Attributed - Alexander Grigoryevich Varnek (born St. Petersburg, 1782 - died 1843) was a Russian painter, noted for his portraits of Russian society figures. Painted on wooden (mahogany?) board.

Size app.: 17.2 x 14.2 cm (roughly 6.7 x 5.6 in) nice frame is 27.2 x 25.3 cm (roughly 10,7 x 10 in). Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition.In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0,7 kg is going to measure some 2 kg packed for shipment.

A. G. Varnek was a pupil of Dmitry Levitzky and Stepan Shchukin at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He went abroad (1801–1809) as a representative of the Academy and later returned as professor and advisor. Along with other artists of the period, Varnek was somewhat restricted in his choice of subject matter due to the political climate and censorship that operated, especially during the reign of Nicholas I. Under censorship, artists were expected to be complacent about the conditions of Russian life. Patrons who commissioned work rarely strayed from acceptable religious and historical themes while artists who chose their own subjects tended to confine themselves to "safe themes." Thus, Varnek's specialty became portraiture. In his own lifetime, he was regarded as a "celebrity artist."