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Orest Kiprensky Portrait of Retired Major General Karl Albrecht oil painting


Portrait of Retired Major General Karl Albrecht
Painting ID::  2182 		Artist: Orest Kiprensky
Painting: Portrait of Retired Major General Karl Albrecht
Introduction: 1827 The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Orest Kiprensky The Poet, Alexander Pushkin oil painting


The Poet, Alexander Pushkin
Painting ID::  2183 		Artist: Orest Kiprensky
Painting: The Poet, Alexander Pushkin
Introduction: 1827 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Orest Kiprensky Ekaterina Avdulina oil painting


Ekaterina Avdulina
Painting ID::  2184 		Artist: Orest Kiprensky
Painting: Ekaterina Avdulina
Introduction: 1822-23 The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Orest Kiprensky Darya Khvostova oil painting


Darya Khvostova
Painting ID::  2185 		Artist: Orest Kiprensky
Painting: Darya Khvostova
Introduction: 1814 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Orest Kiprensky Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov oil painting


Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov
Painting ID::  49091 		Artist: Orest Kiprensky
Painting: Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov
Introduction: mk193 1809 Oil on canvas 162x116cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     1782-1836 Russian Orest Kiprensky Galleries Orest was born in the village of Koporye near Saint Petersburg on 24 March [O.S. 13 March] 1782. He was an illegitimate son of a landowner Alexey Dyakonov, hence his name, derived from Kypris, one of the Greek names for the goddess of love. He was raised in the family of Adam Shvalber, a serf. Although Kiprensky was born a serf, he was released from the serfdom upon his birth and later his father helped him to enter a boarding school at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1788 (when Orest was only six years old). He studied at the boarding school and the Academy itself until 1803. He lived at the Academy for three more years as a pensioner to fulfill requirements necessary to win the Major Gold medal. Winning the first prize for his work Prince Dmitri Donskoi after the Battle of Kulikovo (1805) enabled the young artist to go abroad to study art in Europe. A year before his graduation, in 1804, he painted the portrait of Adam Shvalber, his foster father (1804), which was a great success. The portrait so impressed his contemporaries, that later members of the Naples Academy of Arts took it for the painting by some Old Master - Rubens or van Dyck. Kiprensky had to ask the members of the Imperial Academy of Arts for letters supporting his authorship. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Orest Kiprensky After that, Kiprensky lived in Moscow (1809), Tver 1811, Saint Petersburg 1812, in 1816-1822 he lived in Rome and Napoli. In Italy he met a local girl Anne Maria Falcucci (Mariucci), to whom he became attached. He bought her from her dissolute family and employed as his ward. On leaving Italy, he sent her to a Roman Catholic convent. In 1828, Kiprensky came back to Italy, as he got a letter from his friend Samuel Halberg, informing him that they had lost track of Mariucci. Kiprensky found Mariucci, who had been transferred to another convent. In 1836 he eventually married her. He had to convert into Roman Catholicism for this marriage to happen. He died by pneumonia in Rome later that year. . Related Artists to Orest Kiprensky : | Ochtman, Mina Fonda | Adriaen van de Velde | Joseph Farqharson | Hiroshige, Ando | Charles Hawthorne |

 

 

 
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