Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov
Portrait of General Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev on Horseback
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Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov
1817 - 1898
Portrait of General Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev on Horseback
signed in Cyrillic N. Sverchkov and dated 1894 (lower left)
oil on canvas
87.5 by 70 cm, 34½ by 27⅝ in.
Framed: 114.5 by 97 cm, 45 by 38⅛ in.
Executed in 1894.
An earlier portrait by Sverchkov of General Skobolev was exhibited at the Suvorov Museum in St Petersburg in 2018. In both portraits, Sverchkov depicted Skobelev on a white horse wearing his famous white uniform, for which he was nicknamed "White General" by his troups.
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