#Elizabeth A. Poletika

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Closing the 1840s -

Top:  1849 Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna (?) by Carl Timoleon von Neff (Hermitage) 1085X1473 @72 492kj. The Hermitage lists this as "Portrait of a Young Woman." However Dru identified the sitter as Grand Princess Maria Mikhailovna in a posting to the  Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum of 27 September 2011 and another poster agreed with some doubt.

This work appeared to be unfinished, the background was not over-painted in an oval all around, although a guideline was made and much of the oval was completed. I filled in the unfinished background with Photoshop.

Second row left:  1849 Elizabeth A. Poletika (1832-1854), daughter of Idalia Poletika, in marriage Mordvinova by Vladimir Ivanovich Hau (location ?). From Wikimedia 1536X1973 @200 434kj.

Second row right:  1849 Madame Leon Reisener by Henri-François Riesener (Musée national Eugène-Delacroix - Paris, France). From pinterest.com/CardRichelieu/portrait/ 775X1200 @72 254kj.

Third row:  1849 Comtesse Charles d'Agoult, née Marie de Flavigny, and Her Daughter Claire d'Agoult by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Morgan Library & Museum - New York City, New York, USA). Old image from unrecorded source 2214X2677 @300 2.4Mj.

Fourth row left:  1849 Countess Sofia Andreievna Bobrinskaia, née Shuvalov by Karl Brullov (Hermitage). From liveinternet.ru/users/4000579/post386885193 800X968 @72 224kj.

Fourth row right:  1849 Delfina Potocka by Paul Delaroche (location unknown to gogm) photo - Maciej Szczepańczyk (Mathiasrex). From Wikimedia 1143X1418 @72 2.9Mp.

Fifth row:  1849 Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, UK)> From Wikimedia; removed spots  & flaws & fixed edges w Pshop 1086X1700 @300 409kj. She was a Lady-in-Waiting to and close friend of Queen Victoria. Dunrobin Castle is the family seat of the Sutherland family,

Sixth row left:  1849 Dowager Queen Adelaide by Richard James Lane after Franz Xaver Winterhalter (British Mueum). From their Web site 1737X2500 @300 1.8Mj.

Sixth row right:  1849 Erzherzogin Sophie von Österreich, Prinzessin von Bayern by Josef Kreihuber (auctioned by Neumesiter). From their Web site 2407X3307 @300 2.1Mj.

Bottom:  1849 Comtesse de Bellefonds by Jean-Hégésippe Vettier (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux - Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France). From collections-musees.bordeaux.fr/ow4/mba/images/006-074-1559; fixed spots. bottom edge, & cracks w Pshop 820X1024 @72 246k.