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Portrait study of Princess Scherbatow (née Angela Mills of New York)
Portrait study of Princess Scherbatow (née Angela Mills of New York)

Portrait study of Princess Scherbatow (née Angela Mills of New York)

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Princess Scherbatow (née Angela Mills of New York)
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal, white and pink pastel on paper with framing lines in charcoal
Dimensions
19 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom left in graphite]: Princess ScherbatowFearful of assassination, the Prince, an exiled member of Russian royalty, changed his family name from Scherbatoff to Scherbatow. The couple married in Paris in 1923 (it was the Princess's third) and made their home in St. Augustine, Florida, at the hunting lodge built by the Princess's first husband. The lodge was renamed the Princess Palace Estate upon its designation as a Florida Heritage Landmark.

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