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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1812/15
A gentleman formerly called Alexander Andreivich Bekleshov (1734-1808), in dark grey coat and white knotted cravat, wearing the breast-star and jewel of the Imperial Military Order of St George and of Alexander Nevskii and the Imperial Russian Campaign medal of 1812
on ivory
oval, 2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, rectangular stamped gold mount with anthemion spandrels and outer gilt-metal mount
A gentleman formerly called Alexander Andreivich Bekleshov (1734-1808), in dark grey coat and white knotted cravat, wearing the breast-star and jewel of the Imperial Military Order of St George and of Alexander Nevskii and the Imperial Russian Campaign medal of 1812
on ivory
oval, 2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, rectangular stamped gold mount with anthemion spandrels and outer gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Sotheby's, Geneva, 10 May 1988, lot 19 (as a portrait of Alexander Andreivich Bekleshov [1734-1808], circa 1800).
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