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Dmitry Levitzky

Dmitry Levitzky Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky oil painting on canvas
Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky
Painting ID::  82090
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Dmitry Levitzky Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky oil painting on canvas



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  Dmitry Levitzky
  1735-1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter. Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of St. Andrew. In 1770, Levitzky became famous as a portrait painter after the exhibition of six of his portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. For the portrait of Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1769) he was elected an academician and appointed the Professor of the portrait painting class at the Academy of Arts.
  Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky
  Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky Date 1779 cjr

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