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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.
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Painting ID:: 59607
Duchess Ursula Mniszech
Duchess Ursula Mniszech, 1782
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Painting ID:: 59608
Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice
Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice. 1783
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Painting ID:: 59609
Self Portrait.
Self-Portrait. 1783
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Painting ID:: 59610
Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova
Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1784
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Painting ID:: 59611
Portrait of General Iosif Igelstrom
Portrait of General Iosif Igelstrom. 1790
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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.
. Related Artists to Dmitry Levitzky: | Peter Buell Porter | Master of the Schotten Altarpiece | Adrian Vanson | Sally James Farnham | Hendrick Leys |
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