2-701-987 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of V. I. Arsenyeva', mid-1790s, (1939). Ekaterina Nikolaevna Arsenyeva (born c1778) was a pupil at the Smolny Finishing School. She was the eldest daughter of Major General Nikolai Arsenyev (chief of staff of Count Alexander Suvorov) and V I Ushakova. She was lady-in-waiting to Empress Marie Fyodorovna, and later married state councillor P F Kozlov. Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825) moved to Saint Petersburg from Myrhorod (Ukraine), at the request of Empress Catherine the Great who admired his work. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]