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Ostrovsky Grigory Silovich. 1756-1814 Portrait-painter. Icon-painter. Petty bourgeois from Veliky Ustyug, son of a priest. Painted murals in some of the churches in Veliky Ustyug, but never belonged to the local icon-painters guild. In 1770-ies - 1780-ies was employed as a portrait-painter at the aristocratic Cherevins’ estate Neronovo in Soligalich district. Biographical data is based on the V.M.Sorokaty’s hypothesis. He identifies G.S.Ostrovsky, the icon-painter from Ustyug, with portrait-painter G.Ostrovsky from Soligalich. (Sorokaty V.M. Voprosy biografii G.Ostrovskogo i iskusstvo portreta v Velikom Ustyuge XVIII c.// Pamyatniki Kul’tury: Novye otkrytiya. 1989. L.1990. P. 256-299). Portrait of E.P.Cherevina. 1773 Oil on canvas. 62 õ 46 Author’s inscription on the back of the canvas, removed during the restoration (duplication of the canvas): Ïðòðåò Å.Ï.×. Ïèñàíî. 1773ãî îòðîäó 12 ëåòú. Èçîïèñöà Ã:Îñòðîâñêèé Soligalich Museum Inv. 36 Received in 1923 from the Cherevins’ estate Neronovo in Soligalich district, Kostroma province. Cherevina Elizaveta Petrovna (1761-?), daughter of the Soligalich landowner, Collegiate assessor Pyotr Ivanovich Cherevin and his wife Maria Mikhailovna, born Yaroslavova; in the first marriage Shidlovskaya, in the second marriage - Bezrukova. The first husband of E.P.Cherevina - A.S.Shidlovsky, Collegiate assessor, landowner in Voronezh.