Up for your consideration rare original antique Imperial
Russian porcelain plate made by Kuznetsov porcelain factory and decorated by Elizabeth
Boehm. Very good condition consistent with age and use. Please, look at the
pictures as they are part of the description. Please, look at the pictures at
they are part of the description.
Elizabeth was born in Saint Petersburg to a noble Russian
family of Endaurov (Эндауров) that had a Tatar origin. She spent her childhood
in the estate of her parents: village Schiptsy, Poshekhonsky uezd, Yaroslavl
Governorate. At the age of 14 she entered the School of Painting at the Society
for Promotion of Artists (Школа Поощрения Художеств) there she studied under
Ivan Kramskoi and Pavel Chistyakov. In 1865 she graduated from the school with
the Large Silver Medal. She took private lessons from Kramskoi and studied at
the Imperial Academy of Arts there she was awarded a Large Encouragement Medal
for her animal paintings. She married a prominent Russian-Hungarian violinist
Ludwig Boehm, professor of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Elisabeth painted
many watercolors, illustrated children books of the Folk Library (Народная
библиотека) series there she was introduced by Leo Tolstoy. She also
experimented with glass and ceramics. For her Silhouettes, Etchings and works
of glass she received medals of the World Fairs in Chicago of 1893, Paris of 1900,
Munich of 1902 and Milan of 1906 (gold medal).
Measuring 10 1/8” in
diameter; 1”H
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