1784-1846 Related Paintings of Gabriel Lory fils :. | Appenzeller Steinstossen | Appenzeller Senn | Detail of Ansicht von Unterseen mit Blick auf die Jungfrau | The meal champetre | Elisabeth Grossmann,La Beautiful Bateliere of Brienz | Related Artists: MacLeod, William Douglas American, 1811-92 jan maurits quinckhard 1688-1772 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.