The artist is Ericksen
The picture was made by order of the court, which in the summer was in Tsarskoye Selo. The archive has survived "Vegetable" Order of Catherine II "To the painter Ericen for our standing portrait – 1,500 rubles., Yes, for the picture of the Tsarskoye Selo peasant woman with her family – 600 rubles., only 2100 rubles.". The picture was engraved by the English engraver J. Walker. In the newspaper "St. Petersburg Vedomosti" For 1791, an announcement was placed on the sale in Klosterman’s shop on Nevsky Prospekt "New Estamp, representing a peasant woman, surrounded by his sons and grandchildren, made with her in the army and her. AT. G. Erichsen original by the court engraver Valker".
Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum. Persons of Russia. SPb. 2012. With. 32.
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