1498-1574
Flemish Maerten Jacobsz van Heemskerck Gallery Related Paintings of Maerten Jacobsz van Heemskerck :. | On the street | Collioure | Sunset | The Luxury | Still Life | Related Artists:
Pietro Vannuci called il PeruginoCitta della Pieve ca 1448-Fontignano 1523
Yelland, William DabbAmerican
1848-1900
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.