Photos: Jonathan Russell. Count Zubov (Comte Valentin Platonovič Zubov, Валентин Платонович Зубов, 1884-1969) was a Russian aristocrat and art historian. Aged about 25, he spent the winter of 1908-9 in Italy and where Annie painted this portrait at Salsomaggiore Terme, a town in northern Italy. Zubov founded the Russian Institute of Art History in 1912. …

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