Nicholas I (1796-1855), Tsar of Russia 1825-1855, in red-bordered black coat with silver buttons and epaulettes, wearing the breast-stars of the Imperial Russian Orders of St. Andrew and of St. Vladimir combined with the Order of the Garter, the cross of the Russian Order of St. George, the Imperial Russian Medal for the Turkish Campaign, the cross of the Royal Order of the Crown of Württemberg and the Imperial Russian badge for 25 years of Distinguished Military Services

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IWAN WINBERG (RUSSO-SWEDISH, FL. C. 1830-1846)
Nicholas I (1796-1855), Tsar of Russia 1825-1855, in red-bordered black coat with silver buttons and epaulettes, wearing the breast-stars of the Imperial Russian Orders of St. Andrew and of St. Vladimir combined with the Order of the Garter, the cross of the Russian Order of St. George, the Imperial Russian Medal for the Turkish Campaign, the cross of the Royal Order of the Crown of Württemberg and the Imperial Russian badge for 25 years of Distinguished Military Services
signed 'Winberg.' (mid-right)
oval, 6¾ in. (172 mm.) high, heavy ormolu easel frame with foliate corners

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1979, lot 52.

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Lot Essay

Another large scale miniature of the Tsar by Winberg, painted five years after the present portrait, is in the Gilbert Collection, London, illustrated in S. Coffin/B. Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection. Portrait Miniatures in Enamel, London, 2000, no. 102.

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