Alexander Brullov

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Alexander Pavlovich Brullov, sometimes Brulloff, Brulleau until 1822 (Russian: Александр Павлович Брюллов; 29 November 1798 – 9 January 1877) was a Russian artist associated with Russian Neoclassicism.

Early life

Alexander Brullov was born in

In 1831, after his return to Russia, he was appointed professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts and these were the years when he created his best architectural projects. Among others, he designed and supervised the construction of the following buildings in Saint Petersburg:

• Mikhailovsky Theatre (now Maliy Theater, 1831–1833)
• Nevsky Prospekt
  (1833–1838)
• Pulkovo Observatory (1834–1839)
• The Guard Corps Headquarters on Palace Square (1837–1843).

He was one of the principal architects for the reconstruction of the

In 1844 he designed and built Orenburg Caravanserai in Orenburg.

His son Pavel also became a painter of some note.

Brullov - portrait painter

Alexander Brullov was an outstanding watercolourist. He painted portraits of the Royal Family in Naples. He made a drawing of the Coliseum in Rome for Empress Maria Feodorovna.

In 1831–1832, he painted the famous watercolour portrait of Pushkin's wife Natalia Goncharova. It is one of her best portraits, and one of the best watercolours in the history of Russian art.

In 1837, Briullov painted his portrait of Walter Scott at an evening in Paris at the house of Princess Golitsina and had the drawing transferred onto the lithographic stone. In 1830 in St Petersburg Brullov painted a watercolour portrait of Prince Lopukhin, a year later he painted a watercolour portrait of Tsar Alexander Nikolaevich of Russia surrounded by cadets from the Guards corps.^[1]

Buildings designed by Brullov

• 
  Mikhailovsky Theatre
• 
  Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
• 
  Pulkovo Observatory
• 
  East side of Palace Square

Writings

• Thermes de Pompéi. A. Firman Didot, Paris, 1829.^[2]

References

Literature

• С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). Vol. 2. pp. 298–299.

External links

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