Painting
The painting collection at the Gatchina Palace held over 2000 pictures before 1941. It was started by Count G.G. Orlov and added by each of its successive owners. By 1917, it had grown into a rich and extensive collection of West European and Russian painting.
Included in the collection were splendid official portraits of members from influential European houses, such as portraits painted by Martin van Meytens the Younger, A. Ramsay; F. X. Winterhalter; unpretentious family portraits that entered the collection in the 1920-30s from the estates nearby Gatchina, and paintings acquired by Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorvna, hence the presence in the collection of Scandinavian works, not commonly found in Russia. Currently, there are 1231 paintings that have survived from the original Gatchina collection, but only 235 of those are in the Gatchina Museum-Preserve. Quite a few paintings from the collection were distributed among the museums of the former USSR in the 1950-70s.
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Portrait of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alexeevna
Two Lynxes attacking a deer
Portrait of Alexandra and Maria, children of Nicholas I
Portrait of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich as a Child
Portrait of Count F.M. Apraksin
Diana and her Nymphs after the Hunt
Portrait of a Spanish Doctor
Portrait of Prince Heinrich, brother of Frederick II
Portrait of Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna and Grand Duke Nikolay Pavlovich as Children
Portrait of Prince Xavier of Saxony
ГДМ-123-III Louis Caravaque. 1684-1754. Portrait of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alexeevna. 1745. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-39-III Johann Friedrich Grooth the Younger (1717-1801) Two Lynxes attacking a deer. 1781. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-104-III George Dawe. Portrait of Alexandra and Maria, children of Nicholas I. 1821. Russia. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-112-III Anton Pavlovich Losenko. 1737-1773. Portrait of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich as a Child. 1763. Russia.
ГДМ-90-III Johann Gottfried Tannauer. Portrait of Count F.M. Apraksin. Russia. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-186-III Van Balen. 1575-1632. Diana and her Nymphs after the Hunt. Holland. First quarter of the 17th century. Oil on panel.
ГДМ-95-III Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder. Portrait of a Spanish Doctor. 1790. Austria. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-119-III Anton Graff. 1736-1813. Portrait of Prince Heinrich, brother of Frederick II. Probably 18th c. Germany. Oil on canvas.
ГДМ-97-III Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky. 1757-1825. Portrait of Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna and Grand Duke Nikolay Pavlovich as Children. 1797. Russia. Cardboard, panel, oil.
ГДМ-30-III Pietro Rotari (1707-1762). Portrait of Prince Xavier of Saxony. 1755 – 1756 (?). Dresden. Oil on canvas.