- Object type
- Paintings
- Date
- Production: 1798 - 1801
- Artist
- Jean-Louis Voille (1744 - c.1805)
- Subject(s)
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Portraiture
Royalty - Associated person
- Subject: Tsar Paul I of Russia (1754 - 1801)
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth (framed size): 880 x 724 x 76mm
- Materials and technique
- Oil on canvas
- References
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Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Pages 160-161
Glozier, Matthew. "Lady Emma Hamilton, Tsar Paul of Russia and the British Knights of his Order of Malta." In One St John: The International History Journal of the Most Venerable Order of St John 7 (2022): 7-35. https://www.stjohninternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/onestjohnvol.7.pdf
Page 25
Glozier, Matthew, ""A Royal Founding”: How King George IV invented the insignia of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem", One St John 9 (2023-24): 70-93. https://www.stjohninternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/One-St-John-Journal-Vol-9-2023-2024.pdf
Page 74 - Provenance
- Purchased by Lord Wakefield from Prince Vladimir Galitzine, art dealer.
- Credit line
- Gift of Lord Wakefield, 1934
- Catalogue number
- 1745
Tsar Paul I
Tsar Paul I of Russia made an unlikely Grand Master of the Order of St John. He did not meet the required vows of chastity, poverty or obedience and was of the Russian Orthodox rather than Catholic faith. But desperate times called for desperate measures.