Ivan Nikitin - Portrait of Baron S. G. Stroganoff. 1726. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Stroganoff (also Stroganov), Sergei Grigorievich (1707-1758), Baron, Chamberlain, collector of fine arts, founder of the Stroganoff Picture Gallery, was married to Sophia Kirillovna, nèe Naryshkina, they had one son Alexander Sergeevich Stroganoff (also Stroganov) (1733-1811).
Ivan Nikitin was the favorite artist of Peter the Great. He was born in the family of a clergyman. He was educated initially in the Moscow State Armory and in the engraving workshop of Dutch artist, A. Schonbeck. In 1711, he was transferred to St. Petersburg and was appointed a court painter. His known works of that period are Portrait of Tzarevna Praskovya Ivanovna (1714), Portrait of Tzarevna Natalia Alexeyevna (Not later than 1716), Portrait of Tzarina Praskovya Fedorovna (Not later than 1716).
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