# Portrait of Count Ivan Shuvalov [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROKOTOV, Fyodor]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 64 x 50 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Count Ivan Shuvalov 1760 Oil on canvas, 64 x 50 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov \(1727-1797\) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and academy of arts were instituted with his active participation. ## Related artworks - [Alexandra Struyskaya]() - [Portrait of Catherine II]() - [Portrait of Emperor Paul I as a Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()