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Switzerland: 'Portrait of Mr. Levett, English merchant, in Tatar costume', Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1740.

Switzerland: 'Portrait of Mr. Levett, English merchant, in Tatar costume', Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1740.

Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702 at Geneva–1789 in Geneva) was a Swiss-French painter. although not primarily an Orientalist, his paintings contain some Orientalist themes, notably 'Portrait of Richard Pocoke' (1738), 'Portrait of Monsieur Levett English Merchant in Tatar Costume' (1740), 'Turkish Woman with Maidservant' (1742), and 'Portrait of a Young Black Woman'.