Baltic artist Wedekind (1674-1736), who lived in Russia from 1725, worked on the orders of the Imperial court and was popular with St. Petersburg residents: it is a kind of creative manner respond to the new tastes of the inhabitants of the Northern Palmyra. The work of Wedekind was mainly in private collections, so in the 1920-ies through the Petrograd branch of the State Museum Fund they are dispersed to the peripheral museums. The artist, his works, once "filling all the walls of houses in St. Petersburg", now nearly disappeared from the museums of St. Petersburg. On one of his works, portrait of Adam Gustav von Ulrich presents a Baltic nobleman. Heavy impasto painting-portrait and a bit rough: a young Baron with a pink elongated face and full lips seems a little awkward and stiff. On the back of the canvas has author's inscription: "A. G. V. Ulrich, Natus 1710-E. 3 Sep.", and below "I. H. Wedekind. Fecit 1731. a Revall". The inscription translates a portrait into the category of the reference original, which is very important for further research works of this master.
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