Portrait of Anna Vorontsova
by ROTARI, Pietro Antonio, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 cm
Rotari worked in St. Petersburg from 1757, painting a great number of portraits of Russian aristocrats. Countess Anna Mikhailovna Vorontsova (1743-1769) married into the Stroganov family, a wealthy Russian family of merchants, probably of Tatar origin, famous for their colonizing activities in the Urals and in Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries.