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Berezin Ivan Koz’mich. 1721-1784 Portrait painter. Lived and worked in Veliky Ustyug. Belonged to the merchants. Son of the painter Koz’ma Berezin, who was condemned together with Nikitin brothers on F.Prokopovich case. The elder brother of the painter Vasily Berezin. Portrait of E.N.Tishinina. 1758 Oil on canvas. 101 х 86,5 After the first restoration (duplication of the canvas) the following author’s inscription was reproduced on the reverse side of the canvas: сей патретъ екатерины тишининой рожденной дочери отъ николая и ксенiи тишининыхъ въ 1754 году ноября "15" дня поутру, писанъ въ 1758 году от рожденiя 3-х лbтъ съ половиною въ великомъ устюге живописцом, К.С.Beresin (letter К, was probably misplaced by restorers instead of I or И). During the second duplication of the canvas the inscription and signature were failed to reproduce. STG Inv. 26751 Transferred in 1930 from Rybinsk District Museum; earlier - the property of Tishinins’, Ratkov-Rozhnovs’ families at Tikhvino-Nikol’skoye estate in Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl’ province. Tishinina Ekaterina Nikolayevna (1754-1828), daughter of N.I. and K.I. Tishinins