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1782–1836

Painter, graphic artist and portraitist. His mother was a serf, who was set free receiving a freedom note after he was born. From 1788 to 1803 he studied under G.F.Doiyen and G.I.Ugryumov at the Academy of Arts, where he attended historical painting classes. In 1805 he was awarded with the gold medal for the painting "Dmitry Donskoy after the Victory over Mamai". The medal gave him the opportunity to travel abroad on a pension (scholarship), unfortunately, he was unable to go as war started with Napoleon. From 1809-1810 Kiprensky lived and worked in Moscow, in 1811 he moved to Tver. In 1812 he returned to St.Petersburg, where he became famous as a brilliant portraitist. In 1816 the Empress Elizaveta Alexeyevna decided to finance a trip to Italy, where the artist remained until 1822. In that year a number of his works were exhibited at the Parisian Salon. In 1823 arrived back in Russia. On his way back he visited J.W.Goethe in Marienbad (now Marianske-Lazne, Czech Republic) and produced a pencil portrait of him. In 1827 O.A.Kiprensky painted his famous portrait of A.S.Pushkin. In late 1828 the artist left for Italy again, where he lived until his death. O.A.Kiprensky was the first Romanticist artist in Russian art. His main genre was portraits, he portrayed the model with new understanding and as an independent personality. Kiprensky's characters are remarkable in their inner freedom and incredible naturalness. They are overwhelmed by emotion, capable of deep and strong feelings, which sometimes turn out to be fleeting and contradictory. Each character that the artist painted was a "tiny universe". In his later work, the master displays features of classicism combined with a sharp linear structure, relative flatness and bright, defined colourful areas. Interpreting an individual has become more uniquely systematic. O.A.Kiprensky is a brilliant master of the graphic portrait (the most characteristic example is the Portrait of Count S.P.Buturlin, 1824), becoming an independent genre in Russian art during the early 19th century. All his life O.A.Kiprensky was greatly acknowledged in Europe. In 1825 his self-portrait was acquired by the renowned Uffici Gallery in Florence where it was displayed along with the collection of portraits of celebrated European artists.

Portrait of A.A.Chelishchev

1808-1809
Oil on wood
48 x 38 (oval in a square)
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of Countess E.P.Rostopchina

1809
oil on canvas
77 х 61
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of Count F.V.Rostopchin

1809
oil on canvas
75,8 х 61,3
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of N.S.Molosov

1811
oil on canvas
84,5 x 71,2
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of V.S.Khvostov

1814
oil on canvas
70,3 x 57,6
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of A.I.Molchanova with her Daughter Elizabeth

1814
oil on canvas
70,6 x 57
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of D.N.Khvostova

1814
oil on canvas
71 x 57,8
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of S.S.Uvarov

1815–1816
oil on canvas
117,3 х 90,8
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of V.A. Zhukovsky

1816
oil on canvas
64.8 x 58.1 (circle in a quadrilateral)
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of A.H.Vostokov (?)

1816
oil on canvas
76 x 62
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Girl in a Poppy Garland (Mariucca?)

1819
oil on canvas
42,5 x 40,9
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Gipsy with a Myrtle Branch in her Hand

1819
oil on wood
49 x 34
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of A.F.Shismarev

1826
oil on canvas
135 x 101,2; (top - semioval)
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of N.P.Trubetskoy

1826
oil on canvas
93,5 x 76,5; (top-semioval)
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Poor Liza

1827
oil on canvas
45 х 39
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of A.S.Pushkin

1827
oil on canvas
63 х 54
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Self-portrait

1828
oil on canvas
48,5 x 42,3
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of E.A.Telesheva

1828
oil on canvas
64,2 x 55,5
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of Shishmarev

1828
oil on canvas
56,7 x 46,7
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of the Doctor Mazaroni

1829
oil on canvas
47 x 37
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Newspaper Readers in Naples

1831
oil on canvas
64,5 x 78,3
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Self portrait

circa 1809
oil on canvas
46 x 36,5
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of A.M.Golitsyn

circa 1819
oil on canvas
97,3 x 74,5
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

Portrait of M.M.Cherkasov

circa 1827
oil on canvas
63 x 48,5
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 8

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Kiprensky, Orest Adamovich