Borovikovsky V.L. (1757-1825), painter

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BOROVIKOVSKY Vladimir Lukich (1757-1825, St. Petersburg), painter. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1788. He was a student of D. G. Levitsky and I. B. Lampi the Elder from 1792. A member of the Academy of Arts from 1795 and an advisor from 1802. One of the major portrait painters in the late 18th to the early 19th centuries, he was the first painter in Russia to develop an intimate portrait typical for sentimentalism, which presented a person against a natural or domestic background, such as E. N. Arsenyeva painted in the second half of 1790s and exhibited in the State Russian Museum, Catherine II Walking in the Park of Tsarskoe Selo and M. I. Lopukhina painted in 1794 and 1797, respectively, both exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery. He also created miniature portraits such as V. V. Kapnist painted in the early 1790s and D. G. Levitsky painted in 1705, both exhibited at the State Russian Museum. He generally created ceremonial portraits from the late 1790s, which were influenced by classicism, such as Vice-Chancellor Prince A. B. Kurakin painted in 1799, Major General F. A. Borovsky painted in 1899, and Pavel I Dressed as the Grand Master of the Maltese Order painted in 1800, all these pictures are exhibited at the State Russian Museum. In the last years of his life he joined the Masons, engaged in religious painting, including icons for the Tsar's Gate of Kazan Cathedral painted in 1810-11. He lived at 12 Millionnaya Street in 1798-1820. He was buried at Necropolis of the 18th Century.

Reference: Алексеева Т. В. Владимир Лукич Боровиковский и русская культура на рубеже 18-19 веков. М., 1975; Чижова И. Б. Судьба придворного художника: В. Л. Боровиковский в Петербурге. СПб., 2001.

O. L. Leikind, D. Y. Severyukhin. Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich
Lampi the Elder Johann Baptist
Levitsky Dmitry Grigorievich
Millionnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Алексеева Т. В. Владимир Лукич Боровиковский и русская культура на рубеже 18-19 веков. М., 1975
Чижова И.Б. Судьба придворного художника: В.Л. Боровиковский в Петербурге. СПб., 2001 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Russian Museum, State
Kazan Cathedral
Necropolis of the18th Century