The artist is the count
Samoilova Ekaterina Sergeevna (nearer. Princess Trubetskoy; 1763–1830) – the daughter of the prince with. AND. Trubetskoy. Freilyin Catherine II (1782). In 1786 she married the famous Catherine figure, Prosecutor General of Count A. N. Samoilova (1744–1814), nephew of the Serene Prince G. AND. Potemkina. Like the other nieces of Potemkin, was the subject of his special favor and during the Turkish war in 1787-1791 was with her husband under the main apartment "The brightest" In Benders. The beautiful Countess Samoilova had numerous fans. The cold relations of the Samoilov spouses were known to the whole city and court. By the nature of the Countess Samoilov was an active, active and powerful woman, as a mother – gentle and loving. Knowing the influence of a scattered social life on the girls, she did not allow her daughters to go anywhere without her consent. Mother n. AND. Samoilova and Countess with. AND. Bobrinskaya, mother -in -law Yu. P. Samoilova. Buried in the Spiritual Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
P. N. Petrov wrote that the head on the portrait was written by lamps to the senior, and “outskirts” – to. P. Bryullov. A technological study conducted in the museum confirms Petrov’s opinion that one artist wrote his face, and “outlot” – the other.
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