Carl Ludwig Christinec (? 1732-circa 1794 Saint Petersburg)Portrait of William Gomm, half-length, in a blue coat with gold pipingoil on canvas76.4x 64.3cm(30 1/16x 25 5/16in).For further information on this lot please visit theArtist or Maker: Carl Ludwig Christinec (? 1732-circa 1794 Saint Petersburg)Provenance: ProvenanceBy descent from the sitter to the present ownerThe sitter was the nephew of William Gomm (1728-92), an entrepreneur and merchant banker who went to Russia in 1750 to help develop the port of Odessa; William and his siblings joined his uncle and cousins in St Petersburg and while there he sat to Christinec in the 1760s.