Count Matvej Ivanovich Platov (1757-1818), facing right in blue coat with silver epaulettes and silver-embroidered collar, white cravat, wearing numerous orders, mainly Russian, including a blue moiré sash, a cross suspended from a red ribbon around his neck and other medals (unfinished)

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EMMA ELEONORA KENDRICK (1788-1871)
Count Matvej Ivanovich Platov (1757-1818), facing right in blue coat with silver epaulettes and silver-embroidered collar, white cravat, wearing numerous orders, mainly Russian, including a blue moiré sash, a cross suspended from a red ribbon around his neck and other medals (unfinished)
signed and inscribed in full on the backing paper 'Platoff Emma Eleanora Kendrick 4 Duchess Street Portland Place'
oval, 2½ in. (64 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse

Provenance

The estate of the artist; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 7 September 1935, lot 1764.

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Lot Essay

Having successfully served in the Turkish campaign of 1770/1771, Platov was named by Tsar Alexander I of Russia 'Hetman of the Cossacks of the Don'. He fought against the French 1805-1807 and hung on their retreat from Moscow with pitiless pertinacity. He was notorious for the devastations of his hordes of semi-savages.

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