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Christina robertson: A Scottish Artist in Russia
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1. Historical fiction writers such as myself like to turn this kind of detail into something fascinating. Although my novel The Paintress is fiction, I built it around the facts I had, including her exhibition records and her children’s birthdates.
2. Stephen Lloyd, Portrait Miniatures from Scottish Private Collections, 2006
3. This watercolour is reproduced in Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth Century Interiors. An Album of Watercolours, ed. Joseph Focarino, 1992, p. 150
4. P. P. Kamensky: “Vystavka russkikh khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniy v Sankt-Peterburge i Rime 1839”
[Exhibition of Russian Works of Art in St Petersburg and Rome 1839], Biblioteka dlya chteniya [Readers' Library], vol. 37, 1839, section II, pp. 53-54
5 ‘Zapiski grafa M. D. Buturlina’ [Notes of Count M. D. Buturlin], Russkiy Arkhiv [Russian Archive], Moscow, 1901, book 3, p.451
6. MS diary of Cosroe Dusi in the possession of the artist’s family; cited from a typewritten copy in the Hermitage. It was translated into Russian and published as ‘Dnevnik chudozhnika Cosroe Dusi‘ (Cosroe Dusi. Diario). St Petersburg, 2014
7. Elizaveta Renné, ‘Yeshche odin portret Dessaina’ [One more portrait by Dessain], Nashe Nasledie [Our Heritage], No. 108, 2013, pp. 99-103 (102)
8. Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow, Fund 894, Opis' 1, delo 16
9. The Art Union, IX, 1847, p. 81
10. Hermitage Archive, Opis' 1, 1849, delo 14, 30, 49
11. Ibid
12. Russian State Historical Archive, Moscow, Fund 472, Opis' 17, delo 10, f. 48
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1. Historical fiction writers such as myself like to turn this kind of detail into something fascinating. Although my novel The Paintress is fiction, I built it around the facts I had, including her exhibition records and her children’s birthdates.
2. Stephen Lloyd, Portrait Miniatures from Scottish Private Collections, 2006
3. This watercolour is reproduced in Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth Century Interiors. An Album of Watercolours, ed. Joseph Focarino, 1992, p. 150
4. P. P. Kamensky: “Vystavka russkikh khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniy v Sankt-Peterburge i Rime 1839”
[Exhibition of Russian Works of Art in St Petersburg and Rome 1839], Biblioteka dlya chteniya [Readers' Library], vol. 37, 1839, section II, pp. 53-54
5 ‘Zapiski grafa M. D. Buturlina’ [Notes of Count M. D. Buturlin], Russkiy Arkhiv [Russian Archive], Moscow, 1901, book 3, p.451
6. MS diary of Cosroe Dusi in the possession of the artist’s family; cited from a typewritten copy in the Hermitage. It was translated into Russian and published as ‘Dnevnik chudozhnika Cosroe Dusi‘ (Cosroe Dusi. Diario). St Petersburg, 2014
7. Elizaveta Renné, ‘Yeshche odin portret Dessaina’ [One more portrait by Dessain], Nashe Nasledie [Our Heritage], No. 108, 2013, pp. 99-103 (102)
8. Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow, Fund 894, Opis' 1, delo 16
9. The Art Union, IX, 1847, p. 81
10. Hermitage Archive, Opis' 1, 1849, delo 14, 30, 49
11. Ibid
12. Russian State Historical Archive, Moscow, Fund 472, Opis' 17, delo 10, f. 48
© Elizaveta Renné and Jane Anderson
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