Lot Essay
Count Aleksei Ivanovich Vasil'ev (1742-1807) was the Minister of Finances under Czar Alexander I and spent over 50 years in Imperial service.
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Count Aleksei Ivanovich Vasil'ev, facing right in brown coat, frilled lace cravat, powdered hair en queue, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, the striped red sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Wladimir, the cross of the Imperial Russian Order of St Ann, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and a jewelled Imperial Portrait Badge on a blue bow
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VLADIMIR LUKICH BOROVIKOVSKII (1757-1825)
Count Aleksei Ivanovich Vasil'ev, facing right in brown coat, frilled lace cravat, powdered hair en queue, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, the striped red sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Wladimir, the cross of the Imperial Russian Order of St Ann, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and a jewelled Imperial Portrait Badge on a blue bow
oil on tin
oval, 3.3/8 in. (81 mm.) high, gold frame with hair knot on silk reverse
Count Aleksei Ivanovich Vasil'ev, facing right in brown coat, frilled lace cravat, powdered hair en queue, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, the striped red sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Wladimir, the cross of the Imperial Russian Order of St Ann, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and a jewelled Imperial Portrait Badge on a blue bow
oil on tin
oval, 3.3/8 in. (81 mm.) high, gold frame with hair knot on silk reverse