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Portrait of Grigory V. Rosen (1782-1841) (1st), 1822. One of the key figures of the Caucasian War, served as the de facto viceroy of the Caucasus from 1831 to 1837. English portraitist George Dawe (1781-1829) was commissioned by Alexander I to paint 329 portraits of senior Russian military staff who had successfully fought Napoleon during his invasion of Russia, for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. Dawe worked in Saint Petersburg from 1822 to 1828, with his assistants, Alexander Polyakov and Wilhelm August Golicke, and was officially appointed First Portrait Painter of the Imperial Court.