Aleksey Antropov
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Aleksey Petrovich Antropov (
Life and work
Alexei was born to the family of a government official who worked in the
In 1752-1755, he worked on the interiors of the St Andrew's Church in Kiev. He supervised the installation of the iconostasis and frescoed cupolas and walls. The most prominent of his frescoes in the church is the Last Supper in the altar.
He started to paint portraits before his Kiev period. The earliest known portraits of his are portraits of Elizabeth of Russia. He did not meet his model, but based the paintings on the works of his teacher, Louis Caravaque.
From 1755 to 1757 he worked in Moscow frescoing the Golovkin palace. Here he met prince Ivan Shuvalov who supported Antropov's work for the rest of his life.
From 1757 to 1759 Antropov returned to Saint-Petersburg and obtained further instruction from court painter
In 1762 Peter III of Russia became the new Emperor. Antropov soon became his favorite painter. For the six months of Peter III's rule, Antropov painted at least four of his portraits. After the palace revolt, the new Empress, Catherine II had a much lower opinion of Antropov's talents. At that time, artists preferred a soft combinations of colors and some flattering for the ceremonial portraits. Antropov preferred the traditional icon and parsuna portraits, based on a sharp contrast of colors with a dark background.
In 1789 Antropov made a personal sacrifice, transferring his only house to the Department of Education for organizing a Free School there. In 1795 Antropov died of a fever and was buried in the
Works
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Elizabeth Petrovna
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Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III)
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Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna (future Catherine II)
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Ataman Krasnoshchekov, 1761
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A.V. Buturlina, 1763
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M.A. Rumyantseva, 1764
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Catherine II, 1760s
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Archbishop Gavriil, 1774
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Father Fyodor Dubyansky, 1761
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Self-portrait, 1784
See also
Sources
- Yamshchikov, S.V. (1976). Русский портрет XVIII—XIX веков в музеях РСФСР (Russkii portret XVIII—XIX vekov v muzeiah RSFSR) [Russian portrait of the 18th–19th centuries in the RSFSR museums] (in Russian). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo (Изобразительное искусство).
- Pelevin Yu A. Alexei Petrovich Antropov (in Russian)
- Biography (in Russian)
External links
Media related to Alexey Antropov at Wikimedia Commons