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Dmitry Levitzky

Russian painter (1735–1822)

Field	Value
native_name	Дмитрий Левицкий
image	Levitzky self.jpg
caption	Self-portrait,
birth_date	May 1735
birth_place	Kiev, Russian Empire
death_date
death_place	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
resting_place	Smolensky Cemetery, St. Petersburg
known_for	Portrait painting
style	Classicism
alma_mater
elected

Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky or Levitsky (; ; – ) was a Ukrainian-born Russian portrait painter and academician.

Biography

He was born in May 1735 in Kiev to , a priest, who was also an amateur painter and engraver and served as his first art teacher. In 1758, he moved to Saint Petersburg to become a pupil of the Russian artist Aleksey Antropov, who had been in Kiev to create decorative paintings at the Cathedral of St Andrew. He also studied with Giuseppe Valeriani. In 1764, he established himself as a free-lance artist.

In 1770, Levitzky became famous after the exhibition of six of his portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts; notably for a portrait of the architect Alexander Kokorinov. As a result, he was named an academician and appointed as professor of the portrait painting class at the Academy. He remained in this position until 1788. In 1807, he returned to the Academy.

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

Levitzky's eyesight began to deteriorate at the end of the 1790s, and he rarely painted as a result of this. He died on 16 April 1822 in St. Petersburg.

Works

File:Dmitry Levitzky А.I.Vorontsov.jpg|Count Artemiy Vorontsov (late 1780s) File:Levitsky kokrinov.jpg|Architect Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1769) File:Levitzky Demidov.jpg|Prokofiy Demidov (1773) File:Levitzky Khruscheva Khovanskaya.jpg|E. N. Khruschova and Princess E. N. Khovanskaya (1773) File:Ekaterina Ivanovna Nelidova by Dmitry Levitzky 001.jpg|Ekaterina Nelidova (1773) File:Levitsky Lanskoy.jpg|Alexander Lanskoy, Aide-de-camp to the Empress (1782) File:Catherine II the Legislatress by D.Levitskiy (1783, Novosibirsk musem).jpg|Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice (1783) File:E. Vorontsova-Dashkova by Dm. Levitsky (1784, Hillwood).jpg|Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1784) File:Levitsky Igelstrom.jpg|Portrait of General Iosif Igelström (1790) File:Dmitry_Grigorievich_Levitzky_-Portrait_of_Nikolai_Novikov-_WGA12915.jpg|Nikolay Novikov (1797)

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