# Portrait of Grand Dukes Alexander Pavlovich and Konstantin Pavlovich [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BROMPTON, Richard]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 210 x 147 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Grand Dukes Alexander Pavlovich and Konstantin Pavlovich 1781 Oil on canvas, 210 x 147 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The painting represents the two grandsons of Empress Catherine II. The elder grandson is presented in the guise of Alexander the Great, with sword in hand slicing the Gordian knot. The younger boy is depicted with a labarum, the sacred standard of Roman emperor Constantine the Great, who in the early 4th century decreed Christianity to be the official religion of his empire. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders]() - [Portrait of Catherine II]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()