unknow artist Related Paintings of Anonymous :. | Harbor Masters House | The Henry Grace a Dieu | Portrait of Duke Francis I of Pomerania on catafalque | Portrait of a Painter | Portrait of Johann Casimir von Pfalz Simmern | Related Artists: Dmitry Levitzky 1735-1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter.
Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of St. Andrew.
In 1770, Levitzky became famous as a portrait painter after the exhibition of six of his portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. For the portrait of Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1769) he was elected an academician and appointed the Professor of the portrait painting class at the Academy of Arts. Castello Nativity, Master of the Italian Early Renaissance Painter, active ca.1450-1475 Henry Raschen 1854-1937