Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

Gau Vladimir
Vladimir (Voldemar) Ivanovich Hau was born in the family of the artist Johann Hau, from whom he received his first drawing lessons, like his older brother Eduard. The name of Vladimir Ivanovich Hau is well known to lovers of Russian portrait and miniature painting. He became the patriarch of Russian watercolors and miniature portraits. Vladimir Gau created a whole gallery of images of representatives of the high-society Petersburg of the middle - second half of the 19th century.