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All Levitsky, Dmitry 's Paintings
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ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
19189  
Portrait of Alexander Lanskoy, Aide-de-camp to the Empress, Levitsky, Dmitry
  		 Portrait of Alexander Lanskoy, Aide-de-camp to the Empress   1782, oil on canvas, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
19188  
Portrait of Duchess Ursula Mniszek, Levitsky, Dmitry
  		 Portrait of Duchess Ursula Mniszek   1782, oil on canvas, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
19186  
Portrait of Maria Dyakova, Levitsky, Dmitry
  		 Portrait of Maria Dyakova   1778, oil on canvas, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
19187  
Portrait of Princess Praskovia Repnina, Levitsky, Dmitry
  		 Portrait of Princess Praskovia Repnina   1781, oil on canvas, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
19185  
The Architect Alexander Kokorinov, Levitsky, Dmitry
  		 The Architect Alexander Kokorinov   Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts, 1769, oil on canvas, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Levitsky, Dmitry
Russian Painter, 1735-1822 .Russian painter of Ukrainian birth. Together with Fyodor Rokotov and Vladimir Borovikovsky, he ranks foremost among 18th-century Russian portrait painters. He received his first lessons in painting from his father, Grigory Levitsky-Nos (1697-1769), a priest, engraver and painter. He also studied under Aleksey Antropov, who had come to Kiev to decorate St Andrew's church (1752-5). In the late 1750s Levitsky went with Antropov to St Petersburg, where he stayed until 1764; he continued with lessons from Antropov to whom, it appears, he owed the objectivity that was to characterize his work. It is probable that he also studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, attending classes under Louis Lagren?e. Levitsky worked with Antropov on the decoration of triumphal arches in Moscow for Catherine II's coronation in 1762. His first known portraits are rather formal, for example that of the architect Aleksandr Kokorinov (1769; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.), which won Levitsky the title of Academician in 1770. In such works he made successful use of a compositional structure typical of formal European portrait painting, intended to emphasize the importance of the sitter.



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