Russian Rococo Portrait Young Woman In A Pink Dress 18th Century Oil Painting

Attributed Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (1699, in Moscow – 1761, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter and muralist in the Rococo style. Stretcher bears older sticker with “Pavlovsk Palace” and “Vishnyakov” in Cyrillic.
Size app.: 53 x 42.5 cm (roughly 21 x 17 in). Well conserved with minor retouches, canvas relined. . Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 1.5 kg is going to measure some 3 kg packed for shipment.
I. Y. Vishnyakov was briefly apprenticed to be a varnisher, then was sent to the Chancellory of Buildings in 1727, where he studied under Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter living in Russia, and Andrey Matveyev. He qualified as a master painter in 1739 and became head of the Chancellory after Matveyev's early death. He painted murals in many of the palaces and churches of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, including the Summer Palace, the Anichkov Palace and the Winter Palace. He also did portraits and icons, restored paintings and appraised the works of foreign artists. His portraits were among the first to depart from the flat, static style favored at the Imperial Court. Among his best-known students were Alexei Antropov, Alexei Ivanovich Belsky and Ivan Firsov. In 1740, he attained the rank of Court Counselor (a civil ranking equal to lieutenant-colonel) and, in 1752, became a Collegiate Assessor, entitled him to be addressed as "Your Excellency".