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Fyodor Rokotov (Фёдор Степанович Рокотов)
(1736-1809) |
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Emperor Paul I as a Child 1761
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Fyodor Rokotov was a distinguished Russian painter who specialized in portraits. Rokotov was born into a family of peasant serfs, belonging to the Repnins. Much in his biography is obscure. He studied art in Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After buying back his freedom in the end of 1750s he became established as a fashionable painter. |
Lady in a Pink Dress
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In 1765, Rokotov was elected an Academician, but he did not work as a professor in the Academy long, because it interfered with his painting. He returned to Moscow in 1765, where he lived for the rest of his life. He had a lot of commissions there, becoming one of the best portrait painters of his time. |
Ivan Shuvalov 1760
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Among his best-known portraits are Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya (1772), sometimes called the Russian Mona Lisa and admittedly the most celebrated piece of the 18th-century Russian painting; Portrait of Countess Elisabeth Santi (1785), and Lady in a Pink Dress (1770s). |
Alexandra Struyskaya 1772
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Rokotov avoided painting formal portraits with lots of adornments and decorations. Instead he was one of the first Russian painters advancing a psychological portrait with attention to optical and atmospheric effects. Still wondering about an 18th century Russian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Fyodor Rokotov. |
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