Vasily Tropinin
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Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter, active in Moscow during Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I's reigns. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was m
Self-Portrait in the Front of the Kremlin, 1844; Tropinin Museum, Moscow
Lace making beauty, 1823
Girl from Podolye, 1804–1807
Family portrait of counts Morkovs, 1813
Imperial Academy of Arts
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The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow Uni
Vasily Tropinin
…was sent to Saint Petersburg to study the trade of a confectioner. Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1799, his owner allowed Tropinin to study at the Academy as a non-degree student (Postoronny uchenik). He took lessons from S. S. Schukin and was…
Imperial Academy of Arts (1912)
The Inauguration of the Academy of Arts, a painting by Valery Jacobi.
G. K. Mikhailov, Second Antique Gallery at the Academy of Arts (1836)
Maksim Vorobyov, Egyptian sphinxes lining Academy Quay (1835)