Dmitry Levitzky

Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky) (Russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич Левицкий, May 1735 – April 17, 1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter.

Biography

50 ruble commemorative coin devoted to Dmitry Levitzky, 1994

Dmitry was born in Kiev, Russian Empire, 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. He remained on this position until 1788.

In 1772-1776 Levitzky worked on a series of portraits of the pupils of the privileged women establishment Smolny Institute for Young Ladies in St. Petersburg commissioned by Catherine II. The girls are depicted performing dances, music, plays.

Though Levitzky had many commissions, they were, in most cases, poorly paid, and the painter died in poverty in 1822.

Works

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  Architect Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1769

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  Prokofiy Demidov. 1773

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  E. N. Khruschova and Princess E. N. Khovanskaya. 1773.

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  Ekaterina Nelidova, 1773

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  Alexander Lanskoy, Aide-de-camp to the Empress, 1782

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  Duchess Ursula Mniszech, 1782

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  Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice. 1783

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  Self-Portrait. 1783

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  Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1784

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  Portrait of General Iosif Igelström. 1790

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  Nikolay Novikov, 1797

See also

• Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov

External links

• Levitsky in Olga's gallery
• Levitsky at CGFA gallery

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Name	Levitzky, Dmitry
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Date of birth	1735
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Date of death	April 17, 1822
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