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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:: 59612
Nikolay Novikov
Nikolay Novikov, 1797
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Painting ID:: 80698
Portrait of Denis Diderot
1773(1773)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 82090
Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky
Natalia Melgunova by Levitzky
Date 1779
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Painting ID:: 82750
Portrait of Alexandr Mihailovich Golytsyn
1772(1772)
Medium Oil
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Painting ID:: 93841
Portrait of a student of the Empress School for Noble Maidens Ekaterina Ivanovna Nelidova
1773(1773)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 164 x 106 cm (64.6 x 41.7 in)
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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: | James Bard | Giovanni di Paolo | William Dyce | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Naqqash Sinan Bey |
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