# Portrait of Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeyevna [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSLIN, Alexander]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 83 x 62 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeyevna 1776 Oil on canvas, 83 x 62 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeyevna of Russia \(1755-1776\) was the first wife of the future Tsar Paul I of Russia, the only son of the Empress Catherine II. She was born as Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt in Brandenburg, Prussia as the fifth child of Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and his spouse Caroline of Zweibrücken. She died young when delivering an infant already dead. ## Related artworks - [Jean-François Marmontel]() - [Portrait of Catherine II]() - [The Lady with a Fan \(The Artist's Wife\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()