A. Kharlamov and drawing room art

The first portraits of the representatives of the royal family in Russia appeared in the late XVII - early XVIII centuries, when interest in European tastes and habits arose in the country. Most August persons most often posed only to masters, like Russians, recognized at court or in the artistic environment (in the 18th century - I. Nikitin, I. Vishnyakov, A. Antropov, F. Rokotov. D. Levitsky, S. Schukin, in XIX - K. P. Bryullov, I. E. Repin, and others), and foreign (I. B. Lampi, Sr., J. L. Veil, S. Torelli, A. Roslin, etc.).