Catherine II by H.Buchholz (1765, Russian museum), Heinrich Buchholz, 1765

Large formal portrait of empress catherine ii/ state russian museum. Oil on canvas. 285 x 213 signed and dated lower left: h. Buchholtz px. 1765. Stamp on the stretcher: g. R. M. Zh-8069 (number crossed out) received: 1927 from the museum of the dying cult of the society "old petersburg" - "new leningrad" (leningrad); previously - the school of st. Peter (petrograd) zh-5863 depicted with the order of st. Andrew the first-called (ribbon and star). D. A. Rovinsky believed that buchholtz copied the portrait of catherine ii from the original by v. Eriksen (rovinsky. Portraits*, vol. 4, column 396). Date: 1765.