Nikolai Karlovich BARANOV (von BARANOFF), PORTRET OF MICHAEL VASILYEVICH PASZKOV, ca. 1835

Oil, duplicated canvas; 71 x 59 cm (light oval 57 x 48 cm)
Signed d.: Барановъ
On the frame a brass plate with the inscription: Н Барановъ
Asking price 25000
Estimate 30000 - 35000

The portrayed wears the uniform of the Leib-Gvardian Hussar Regiment of His Majesty , in which he served until 1832.

Mikhail Vayliyevch Pashkov (1802-1863) lieutenant general of the Russian army. From. 1819 junker with the Guards cavalry regiment. Since 1820, adjutant to General Arseniy Zakrevsky. In 1822 he returned to the rope service. In 1829 he was promoted to the rank of rotormaster. In 1832 transferred to the Leib-Gvardian Hussar Regiment with the rank of staff-captain. From 1834 figel-adjutant. From 1838 colonel, commander of an escadron. In 1847 he was promoted to major general in the monarch's entourage. A year later he took over the Department of Foreign Trade and the Inspectorate of Border Guards. In 1856, he was promoted to lieutenant general. From 1859, a member of the State Horse Breeding Council.

Nikolai Karlovich BARANOV (von BARANOFF).
1808 Wäätsa (Waetz) - 1863 Paide (Weißenstein, White Stone).
Painter and lithographer, collegiate counselor. He studied in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Rome. He created in St. Petersburg. He made portraits of Russian actors and actresses and religious paintings for St. Petersburg's Catholic churches and Orthodox churches. He painted an altar painting (Ascension) for the Lutheran Church in Weissenstein (1848). He also did genre painting, mainly hunting scenes. His Portrait of an Old Tramp (1834) and Landscape are in a museum in Riga. In 1859, he was awarded the title of landscape painter by the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg for his painting View of an Inn in the Estonian Governorate.