Portrait of P. F. Vorontsova by Dmitry Levitsky

Portrait of P. F. Vorontsova by Dmitry Levitsky

Portraits of the Vorontsov couple were created for the family portrait gallery. The portrait of PF Vorontsova is elegant in color: a beautiful golden brown background dominates in it. The artist depicts the pleasant features of her model: she has a tender look and gentle, feminine features. Vorontsova Praskovya Fedorovna is the daughter of Fyodor Alekseevich Kvashnina-Samarina and Alexandra Yuryevna, the wife of Artemy Ivanovich Vorontsova her mother Alexandra Yuryevna Kvashnina-Samarina, nee Rzhevskaya.

According to her son-in-law, Count D. P. Buturlina, Alexandra Yuryevna was a woman “very reasonable and trusted.” She died at the age of 47 and was buried at the Lazarevsky cemetery of the Aleksadro-Nevsky Lavra. Portraits of the Vorontsov family come from the collection of A. K. Boldyrev, the grandson of the younger daughter of A. I. Vorontsov – Praskovya Artemyevna Timofeeva.

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