Lot 215: Count Dmitrii Pavlovich Tatishchev (1767-1845), in black uniform, gold-embroidered black collar, wearing the jewel and breast-star of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Vladimir (2nd class), and the

VINCENZO CASTELLI (ITALIAN, 1789-1845)
Count Dmitrii Pavlovich Tatishchev (1767-1845), in black uniform, gold-embroidered black collar, wearing the jewel and breast-star of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Vladimir (2nd class), and the badge of the Military Order of St. George (4th class)
signed 'V Castelli' (lower right)
oval, 2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with blue mount with spandrels at corners

Collection of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), in 1909.

Count Dmitrii Pavlovich Tatishchev was Russian Ambassador in Vienna from 1826 to 1841. In 1813 he married Julia Aleksandrovna Konopka and in 1840 he lost his eyesight.
For other portraits of Tatishchev, see G. Kugler, Staatskanzler Metternich und seine Gäste , Graz, 1991, pl. 51 (by Daffinger, 1837) and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, Russkie portrety , St. Petersburg, 1905-1909, I, 160, and sale Christie's, London, 28 May 2002, lot 197. A miniature of his wife by Daffinger is illustrated in K. V. Mikhailova/G. V. Smirnov, Portrait Miniatures from the Russian Museum , Leningrad, 1974, II, no. 31, pl. 89, pp. 182-183, 364.