Orest Kiprensky

Details

Instance of

human

Born

13 March 1782, 24 March 1782

Died

12 October 1836, 24 October 1836

Place of birth

Nezhnovo

Place of death

Rome

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Orest, Adamowitsch

Family name

Kiprenski

Movement

Romanticism

Genre

portrait

Field of work

painting

Occupation

painter, graphic artist

Citizenship

Russian Empire

Awards

Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library

cause of death

pneumonia

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Artists of the USSR. Volume 4.2, 1995, Faces of Moscow, The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World: Tome 3

educated at

Imperial Academy of Arts

has works in the collection

Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery of Armenia, National Museum in Warsaw, Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv, Belarusian National Arts Museum, Royal Palace of Naples, State Historical Museum, Donetsk Regional Museum of Art, State Literature Museum

influenced by

Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Jacopo Tintoretto

languages spoken, written or signed

Russian

manner of death

natural causes

name in native language

Орест Кипренский

notable work

Alexander Pushkin, Portrait of A.A.Chelishchev, Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov, Gazette readers in Naples, Portrait of Count Grigory Kushelev (1754-1833)

place of burial

Rome

social classification

peasant

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