All Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Oil Paintings

(Russian: July 24 O.S. 1757 - April 6 O.S. 1825) was a Ukrainian-born painter who dominated Russian portraiture at the turn of the 19th century. ladimir Borovikovsky was born dymyr Borovyk in Myrhorod (now Ukraine) on July 24, 1757. His father, Luka Borovyk was a Ukrainian Cossack and an amateur icon painter. According to the family tradition, all four of Borovyk's sons served in Myrhorod regiment, but Volodymyr retired early at the rank of poruchik and devoted his life to art mostly icon painting for local churches. Borovikovsky may have lived the remainder his life as an amateur painter in a provincial town if not for an unexpected event. His friend Vasyl Kapnist was preparing an accommodation for Empress Catherine II in Kremenchuk during her travel to newly conquered Crimea. Kapnist asked Borovikovsky to paint two allegoric paintings (Peter I of Russia and Catherine II as peasants sowing seeds and Catherine II as a Minerva) for her rooms. The paintings so pleased the Empress that she requested that the painter move to Saint Petersburg. Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797After September 1788 Borovikovsky lived in Saint Petersburg where he changed his surname from the Cossack "Borovyk" to the more aristocratic-sounding "Borovikovsky". For his first ten years in Saint Petersburg, he lived in the house of the poet, architect, musician and art theorist, Prince Nikolay Lvov, whose ideas strongly influenced Borovikovsky's art. At 30-years-old, he was too old to attend Imperial Academy of Arts, so he took private lessons from Dmitry Levitzky and later from Austrian painter Johann Baptist Lampi.
 

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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina oil on canvas


Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina
Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina
Painting ID::  78426
  1799(1799) cjr
  1799(1799) cjr

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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Portrait of D.A Derzhavina oil on canvas


Portrait of D.A Derzhavina
Portrait of D.A Derzhavina
Painting ID::  78603
  1813(1813) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 284 x 204.3 cm (111.8 x 80.4 in) cyf
  1813(1813) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 284 x 204.3 cm (111.8 x 80.4 in) cyf

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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina oil on canvas


Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina
Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina
Painting ID::  78747
  1799 cjr
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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Portrait of Alexandr Borisovich Kurakin oil on canvas


Portrait of Alexandr Borisovich Kurakin
Portrait of Alexandr Borisovich Kurakin
Painting ID::  78974
  1801(1801) Oil on canvas cjr
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Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow oil on canvas


Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
Painting ID::  79200
  1795(1795) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 28.7 x 23.5 cm (11.3 x 9.3 in) cyf
  1795(1795) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 28.7 x 23.5 cm (11.3 x 9.3 in) cyf

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     Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
     (Russian: July 24 O.S. 1757 - April 6 O.S. 1825) was a Ukrainian-born painter who dominated Russian portraiture at the turn of the 19th century. ladimir Borovikovsky was born dymyr Borovyk in Myrhorod (now Ukraine) on July 24, 1757. His father, Luka Borovyk was a Ukrainian Cossack and an amateur icon painter. According to the family tradition, all four of Borovyk's sons served in Myrhorod regiment, but Volodymyr retired early at the rank of poruchik and devoted his life to art mostly icon painting for local churches. Borovikovsky may have lived the remainder his life as an amateur painter in a provincial town if not for an unexpected event. His friend Vasyl Kapnist was preparing an accommodation for Empress Catherine II in Kremenchuk during her travel to newly conquered Crimea. Kapnist asked Borovikovsky to paint two allegoric paintings (Peter I of Russia and Catherine II as peasants sowing seeds and Catherine II as a Minerva) for her rooms. The paintings so pleased the Empress that she requested that the painter move to Saint Petersburg. Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797After September 1788 Borovikovsky lived in Saint Petersburg where he changed his surname from the Cossack "Borovyk" to the more aristocratic-sounding "Borovikovsky". For his first ten years in Saint Petersburg, he lived in the house of the poet, architect, musician and art theorist, Prince Nikolay Lvov, whose ideas strongly influenced Borovikovsky's art. At 30-years-old, he was too old to attend Imperial Academy of Arts, so he took private lessons from Dmitry Levitzky and later from Austrian painter Johann Baptist Lampi.

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