Lot 32: SCHOOL OF ALEXEI GAVRILOVICH VENETSIANOV (1780-1847) Por

SCHOOL OF ALEXEI GAVRILOVICH VENETSIANOV (1780-1847) Portrait of Sofia Matveevna Velikopolskaya nee Mudrova bears paper label with inscription in Cyrillic ‘Sofia Matveevna /Velikopolskaya /nee Mudrova /My mother’ (on verso) oil on canvas 29 x 23cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/16in). " "Sofia Matveevna Velikopolskaya, née Mudrova" "(1815-1897), was the wife of Ivan Yermolaevich" "Velikopolskiy, a retired military officer, estate owner" "and, most importantly, a long-life friend of Alexander" Sergeevich Pushkin.