Portrait Of The Family Of Duchess Adèle Ozarowska Georg Von Bothmann (1810-1891)

The present work depicts the family of the owner of a porcelain factory in St. Petersburg.
The back of the frame (probably original) bears a handwritten label listing the members of the family, including "Adele, Gräfin Ozarowska" (née Matthiessen),
who is probably the girl seated in the foreground in the white dress, who later married into the aristocratic Ozarowski family. Little is known about the artist who painted this work. While several art encyclopedias have previously assumed that Bothmann settled in Russia in 1846, the fact that the present work is dated 1845 proves that he arrived at least a full year earlier. While in Russia, Bothmann painted portraits of Tsars Nicholas I and Alexander II.