Carl Ludwig Christinec (? 1732-circa 1794 Saint Petersburg) Portrait of Clementina Gomm, half-length, in a black dress with a fur collar oil on canvas 89.9 x 70.6cm (35 3/8 x 27 13/16in). Footnotes: Provenance By descent from the sitter to the present owner The sitter was the niece of William Gomm (1728-92), an entrepreneur and merchant banker who went to Russia in 1750 to help develop the port of Odessa; Clementina joined her uncle and cousins in St Petersburg and while there she sat to Christinec in the 1760s. She married John Stones in Clerkenwell in 1771. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com