Portrait of the prince n. B. Yusupova

The artist is the lamp

The author of the portrait is Johann Baptist Lampi Senior, Austrian painter. Favorite portraitist of the courtyard and nobility. Worked in Vienna and Warsaw. At the invitation of the prince g g. AND. Potemkina, who was then in Moldova, Lampi went to Yassi and arrived there in January 1792. Having soon moved to St. Petersburg, he stayed there until April 1797., Having fulfilled many portraits of Fatherine II who favored him, faces of the royal family and the highest aristocracy. Gave lessons to Russian artists (from 1792 to 1794 at Lampi studied in. Borovikovsky).

Yusupov Nikolay Borisovich (1750-1831)-prince. A collector, an honorary lover of IAX, a real state adviser, a senator, a member of the State Council under Catherine II. Director of Imperial Theaters, headed the imperial Hermitage. Owner and builder of the Arkhangelsk estate, philanthropist. Was married to t. AT. Potemkina (nee Engelhardt; 1769–1841). Depicted with the orders of the White Eagle (tape) and St. Stanislav (Cross). Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum. Persons of Russia. SPb. 2012. With. 94.

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