A Biedermeier style oil on canvas portrait of a young man attributed to Vasily Tropinin, Russian, 1776 to 1857. Signed in the Cyrillic right and dated 1839. Housed in a gilt wooden frame. Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was a remarkable figure of Russian Romanticism, portraitist, genre painter, landscapist, and draughtsman. Serf of Count Minich and then Count Morkov. External student at the Imperial Academy of Arts, from 1804. Worked as a serf painter in Ukraine and Moscow. Freed from serfdom and nominated to the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1823. Academician, 1824. Mostly worked in Moscow, influencing the Moscow school of painting. Painted portraits of such contemporaries as Alexander Pushkin and single-figure genre compositions. Contributed to many exhibitions in Moscow and St Petersburg.