Lot Essay
Orest Issaakowitch Timaschewskji was a pupil at the Academy of St Petersburg between 1848 and 1850.
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OREST ISSAAKOWITCH TIMASCHEWSKJI 1822-1867), AFTER GILBERT STUART (AMERICAN, 1755-1828)
George Washington, in black coat and waistcoat, white stock and frilled white cravat, powdered hair worn en queue
signed in Russian cyrillic 'O. Timaschewskji' (lower right)
on ivory
octagonal, 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (60 x 48 mm.), gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonised frame
George Washington, in black coat and waistcoat, white stock and frilled white cravat, powdered hair worn en queue
signed in Russian cyrillic 'O. Timaschewskji' (lower right)
on ivory
octagonal, 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (60 x 48 mm.), gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonised frame
Provenance
Prince Alexander Drucki-Lubecki (1861-1926) Collection, Warsaw.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 821.
Exhibited
Warsaw, The Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments, Pamietnik Wystawy Miniatur, Oraz Tkanin I Haftow (Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, fabric and embroidery), 1912, no. 963.
Special notice
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