Background

Ethnicity: Venetsianov was born into a merchant family of Greek descent.

Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov was born on February 18, 1780, in Moscow City, Russian Federation into a merchant family of Greek descent.

Education

Alexey Venetsianov entered the civil service in the early 19th century and moved to St. Petersburg, where he began to study art. He first practiced with pictures of the Hermitage and with portraits of friends.

Venetsianov later got acquainted with the outstanding painter of his time Vladimir Borovikovsky and lived in his house as an apprentice.

Career

Alexey Venetsianov tried to work as a freelance portraitist but received only a few commissions. He was engaged in the satirical magazine graphics, in 1807 published his cartoons in the magazine in 1808, consisting of several issues.

In 1811, presented to the Board of IAH "Self", for which was recognized as "designated" in academics. That fall he was elected an academician of the "Portrait of KI Golovachevskogo with three pupils of the Academy of Fine Arts. During the war of 1812 with Terebenev performed in the technique of etching satirical sheets. In 1815 the county purchased in Vyshnevolotsk Tver province Troniha small village with villages Safonkovo, Slivnevo, Maksiha and Mikashiha, where he spent the summer months. In 1817, completed forty etchings depicting "street" types "for publication "Magic Lantern", which were subsequently made porcelain figurines at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg.

In 1819, devoting himself purely to art, Venetsianov left the service, bought the village of Safonkovo, and settled there. During this time he painted scenes from nature that he observed around him. These works were of prime importance in his career. He painted portraits of peasants, and scenes illustrating rural life. Venetsianov was the first to depict peasant life in Russian art. His works achieved great success at the exhibition of 1824, where he received critical praise. Moreover, his painting "The Barn" attracted the attention of Emperor Alexander, who was touched by the vivid veracious images of peasants. The painting was bought by the emperor for 3000 rubles.

Venetsianov wished to become a professor in the Academy of Arts, but the academicians did not grant him their approval, mainly because he lacked academic training. During the years prior to 1820, he began to attract young people from poor backgrounds, and even serfs such as Grigory Soroka, to teach them painting. By the middle of the 1820s, he had a group of followers and established his own school of painting. Tsar Nicholas I, who liked to promote "national trends", expressed his approval for the artist and appointed him a court painter. This title gave him the financial support necessary for running the school, where tuition was practically free.

Alexey Venetsianov died in an accident on January 4, 1847, in Tver', Russian Federation, when his horses dashed off and his carriage fell down a steep slope.

Achievements

• Alexey Venetsianov was an outstanding artist of the first half of the XIX century, who developed his work in the Russian version of the Biedermeier style. He is considered one of the founders of realism in Russia. Among his most famous paintings were "Sitting shepherd" (between 1823 and 1826), "Threshing floor" (1821), and "Summer. Harvest " (early 1820), among others.
  
  In addition, in 1811, the Board of the Academy of Arts awarded him the title of an Academician for his 2 works: "Self-Portrait" and "Portrait of K. I. Golovachevsky and the Younger Pupils of the Academy".
  
  Currently, his works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Tver Regional Picture Gallery and others.

Works

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  • Peasant Girl with a Sickle in the Rye

  • Portrait of an Official

  • A Boy in a Red Shirt

  • Harvesting. Summer

  • Bathers

  • Girl with Milk

  • Head of an Old Peasant

  • Bather

  • Sleeping Herd-Boy

  • Reapers

  • Panaevs children

  • Portrait of the Merchant Obraztsov

  • Checkered Shawl

  • A Peasant Girl with Embroidery

  • A Peasant Girl with a Calf

  • Girl with Accordion

  • Portrait of Nikolay Karamzin

  • Self-Portrait

  • Girl with Burak

  • Portrait of M. A. Venetsianova

  • Bather with a Bowl

  • Peasant Woman with Milk

  • Girl with Culf

  • A Peasant Woman with a Rake

  • Portrait of Natalia Pavlovna Stroganova

  • Portrait of a Girl

  • Prayer to Our Lady Mother for the pupils Smolny

  • Portret of V.S. Putyatina

  • Portrait of M. M. Philosophova

  • Haymaking

  • Threshing-Floor

  • Portrait of P. I. Milyukov

  • Bathers

  • Peasant Boy

  • Old Nurse in Shlychkov

  • Zakharka

  • A Peasant girl from Tver

  • Portrait of K. I. Golovachevsky and the Younger Pupils of the Academy

  • Portrait of Nastya Havskaya

  • Portrait of P.V. Havskoy

  • A Peasant Woman

  • Wet-Nurse with a Child

  • Portrait of the Commander of the Dragoon Regiment P. A. Chicherin

  • Full-scale Class

  • Meeting at the Well

  • Peter the Great. Founding of St. Petersburg

  • French Activities in the Store

  • Portret of A.I. Bibikov

  • Young Man in Spanish dress

  • First Steps (Peasant Woman with child)

  • Portrait of a Peasant Girl

  • Portrait of M. A. Fonvizin

  • Portret of A.L. Venetsianova, Artist's Mother

  • Portret of A.Putyatin

  • Portrait of Marfa Venetsianova

  • Peasant Boy Putting on Bast Sandals

  • Girl with the Cornflowers

  • Portrait of the Merchant's Wife Obraztsova

  • Two Peasant Boy with a kite

  • The Lamentation

  • Reaper

  • A Peasant Woman with a Child

  • Portrait of Peter I

  • A Peasant Woman, Combing Flax (Anisia)

  • The Girl in the Hayloft

  • That is, those Fathers Dinner!

  • Portrait of Artist's Daughters Alexandra and Felisata

  • Portret of L.A. Stromilova

  • Morning of the Landlady

  • Shelling of beet

  • A Herd-Boy with a Pipe

  • A Peasant Woman, Resting on Her Hand

  • Peasant Girl with Butterflies

  • Spinner

  • Cartomancy

  • Diana Dressing

  • Sleeping Girl

  • Portrait of the State Chancellor of the Internal Affairs, Prince Victor Pavlovich Kochubey in his Study

  • Peasant Children in the Field

  • Communion of Dying

  • Portret of I.V. Bugaevskiy-Blagodarniy

  • In the Fields. Spring

  • A Peasant Woman with Scythe and Rake

  • The Spinner

  • Haymaking

  • Portrait of A. A. Venetsianova

  • Girl in a Kerchief

  • The Farmer with Folded Arms

Membership

Venetsianov was an active member of the Society for the Promotion of artists.

Connections

teacher:

Vladimir Borovikovsky

References

• Alexey Venetsianov, uma breve biografia
• 86 Color Paintings of Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov
• Savinov A.: Alexej Gavrilovich Venecianov 1780-1847
• Leonteva G.: Alexej Gavrilovich Venecianov