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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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Pintura identificación:: 59607 Duchess Ursula Mniszech
Duchess Ursula Mniszech, 1782
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Pintura identificación:: 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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Pintura identificación:: 59609 Self Portrait.
Self-Portrait. 1783
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Pintura identificación:: 59610 Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova
Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1784
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Pintura identificación:: 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.
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