Alexeev F.Y. (1753/55-1824), artist

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ALEXEEV Fedor Yakovlevich (between 1753 and 1755, St. Petersburg - 1824), painter, watercolourist. He was a student of the Academy of Arts in 1766-73 and its retainer in Venice in 1773-77 where he mastered theatre painting. Upon his return to St. Petersburg he worked as a decorator. He then focused on landscape painting and founded the genre of mountain landscape in Russian art. He painted a number of poetic landscapes of St. Petersburg reproducing the austere beauty of its classical architecture such as View of Dvortsovaya Embankment from Vasilievsky Island painted in 1810 and exhibited in the State Tretyakov Gallery, View of Mikhailovsky Castle from the Fontanka painted in c.1800, and View of Angliiskaya Embankment from Vasilievsky Island painted in 1810, both exhibited in the State Russian Museum. He also painted views of Moscow and towns of the Black Sea Region and Crimea. He was a teacher in the Academy of Arts from 1803; Silvester Shchedrin and M. N. Vorobyev were among his students. He was buried at Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery (the grave has not been preserved).

Reference: Федоров-Давыдов А. А. Федор Яковлевич Алексеев. М., 1955; Андросова М. И. Федор Алексеев, 1753-1824. Л., 1979.

O. L. Leikind, D. Y. Severyukhin. Alexeev Fedor Yakovlevich
Фёдоров-Давыдов А. А. Федор Яковлевич Алексеев. М., 1955
Андросова М. И. Федор Алексеев, 1753-1824. Л., 1979 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Russian Museum, State