Russian Art Deco Designer and Illustrator, 1866-1924 Related Paintings of Leon Bakst :. | Gladiolen | Terror Antiquus | Self Portrait. | Terror Antiquus (mk19) | in the ballet Afternoon of a Faun 1912 | Related Artists:
Allen Smith1810-1890
Allen Smith Galleries
Dmitry Levitzky1735-1822) 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.
Henry Gastineau1791-1876