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Portrait painters from the Russian Empire

  • Dmitry LevitzkyDmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky entered the world in May 1735 within the city of Kiev. His father served as a priest and worked as an amateur painter and…
  • Ivan ArgunovIvan Petrovich Argunov entered the world in 1729 as a serf bound to the Counts Sheremetev. He grew up within the household of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich…
  • Karl BryullovKarl Bryullov entered the world on the 12th of December 1799 in St. Petersburg. His father Pavel Ivanovich Briullo served as an academician, woodcarver, and…
  • Vladimir BorovikovskyVladimir Lukich Borovikovsky entered the world on the 24th of July 1757 in Mirgorod. This town sat within the Cossack Hetmanate of the Russian Empire.