Venice ca 1432-after 1491 Related Paintings of Bartolomeo Vivarini :. | Sts Andrew and Nicholas of Bari | Erzherzogin Margarete | The Meeting of Anne and Joachim | Madonna and Child | Virgin Enthroned with the Child on her Knee | Related Artists:
Guglielmo GirardiThe period of 1465-1535
Carl Jonas Linnerhielmpainted View over Hallsnas mansion in 1758-1829
Dmitry Levitzky1735-1822) 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.