A Gallery of 40 Portrait Paintings Through History

Mark Cartwright

by Mark Cartwright
published on 25 February 2025

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Empress Catherine II of Russia

by Alexander Roslin
published on 21 August 2023

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A 1780s oil-on-canvas portrait by Alexander Roslin of Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-96). Catherine was formally crowned empress regent on 22 September 1762 and this portrait endorses her royal status, perhaps a welcome endorsement since her parents were of the nobility but not wealthy.

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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