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| Keywords: Ardalion Petr. Novosiltsev by V.Borovikovsky (1807, priv.coll).jpg en Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky 1757-1825 PORTRAIT OF ARDALION PETROVICH NOVOSILTSEV signed in Cyrillic and dated 1807 l l ; further inscribed on the reverse in a different hand oil on canvas 73 by 60 3cm 29 by 23 3/4 in SOLD 869 000 GBP Sotheby's Russian Pictures 02 JUNE 2015 PROVENANCE Sotheby's London The Russian Sale 14 December 1995 lot 104 Collection of John Stuart London CATALOGUE NOTE During her travels through southern Russia in 1787 it is said that Catherine the Great stayed in a house in which hung two paintings by the young Borovikovsky who had originally been trained by his father in icon painting Such was their impressive quality that the Empress invited Borovikovsky to relocate from his native Mirgorod to St Petersburg which he did the following year From 1792 onwards he trained under Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder who had also recently moved to the capital at Catherine s invitation; by the mid-1790s Borovikovsky had established himself as one of the leading portrait artists among St Petersburg s fashionable elite The present portrait shows Ardalion Petrovich Novosiltsev dates unknown who came from a family of Orlov landowners His grandfather Ivan Novosiltsev was promoted to nobility when he was granted the title ober-ofizer during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna Ardalion Petrovich is depicted here in full court uniform as befitting his rank of Gentleman of the Bedchamber Prior to its appearance at Sotheby s in 1995 the portrait was unknown to scholars and although there is no documented record of Borovikovsky having painted Ardalion Petrovich Novosiltsev his series of portraits of the other members of the present sitter s family is well-known This Novosiltsev family series consist of portraits of Petr Ivanovich Novosiltsev general and senator fig 2 ; his wife Ekaterina Alexandrovna fig 1 née Torsukova who was the niece of Maria Perekusikhina the famous confidant of Catherine II; and three of their sons - Nikolai Petr and Ivan figs 3-5 But Petr Ivanovich and Ekaterina Alexandrovna had six sons in all so it is entirely logical to presume that the other children also sat for Borovikovsky Only the eldest of these brothers Vasily could not have been painted by the artist since he died aged 17 of a wound he had received during the first 1805 war with France The portraits of the three brothers Ivan Nikolai and Petr all share the same dimensions approximately 70 by 60cm and are closely comparable to the present work The two missing portraits are those of the brothers Alexander and Ardalion who were living and working in St Petersburg during this same period at which the other family members are known to have been painted The appearance of a portrait of Ardalion in the view of V P Stark is therefore entirely reasonable V P Stark Tri portreta Nakhodki i opredeleniya Khudozhstvenny vestnik 2007 no 3 ru А далион Пет ович овосильцев 179 - 1871 сын П И овосильцева 1744-1805 и Е А То суковой 1755-1842 http //www artchive com/web_gallery/V/Vladimir-Lukich-Borovikovsky/Portrait-of-Ardalion-Petrovich-Novosiltsev-1871 html http //www sothebys com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/russian-paintings-l15112/lot 22 html Creator Vladimir Borovikovsky 1814 PD-old-100 Male portraits by Vladimir Borovikovsky House of Novosiltsev Portrait paintings in 19th-century military uniforms of Russia 1814 portrait paintings Images from Sotheby's Private collections of Russian art 1807 portrait paintings | ||||
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