Portrait of N.I. Tishinin. 1758


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Berezin Ivan Koz’mich. 1721-1784

Portrait painter. Lived and worked in Veliky Ustyug. Belonged to the merchants. Son of the painter Koz’ma Berezin, who was condemned together with Nikitin brothers on F.Prokopovich case. The elder brother of the painter Vasily Berezin.

Portrait of N.I. Tishinin. 1758

Oil on canvas. 214 х 160


An old inscription was reproduced on the reverse side of the canvas during the restoration (the second duplication of the canvas): патретъ лейбъ Гвардiи измайловскаго полку прапорщика Николаа тишинина родившагося въ 1727 году Априля 25, дня. От роду 31 году и 6 мцовъ въ мbру, позитуры его писанной, въ великом устюгb, с натуры покончине бывшей супруги его через 1 год и 9 мцовъ, которая въ супружество въ ступила въ 1752 году сентября 2. дня, скончалась въ 1757. году генваря. 23. Дня бывъ въ супружествb. 4. года 5 мцовъ и двадесять дней. Писанъ великоустюжским живописцомъ IвАномъ Березинымъ в 1758 году. On the first duplicate canvas was another inscription: Возобновле 1875. году врыбинске. чернышовымъ. М.И.

STG
Inv. 26752

Transferred in 1930 from Rybinsk District Museum; earlier - the property of Tishinins’, Ratkov-Rozhnovs’ families at Tikhvino-Nikol’skoye estate in Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl’ province.
Tishinin Nikolai Ivanovich (1727-1773), captain of the life-guard of Izmailovsky regiment, landowner in Yaroslavl’, Kostroma and Vologda provinces. Son of the colonel Ivan Vasilyevich Tishinin. Owner of numerous textile, paper, linen and a brick manufactures. Writer, translator, patron of arts. He was acquainted and in correspondence with famous engraver M.I. Makhaev.






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