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Grooth Georg Christoph

GROOTH Georg Christoph (1716, Stuttgart – 1749, Saint Petersburg)
German painter. Portraitist. He worked in Russia from 1740 (1?) to 1749. Since December 1743, the Keeper of the Palace art galleries. He also decorated the interiors of palaces and other buildings in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo. He created a whole gallery of portraits of the Russian aristocracy.