Background

Dmitry Levitzky was born in May, 1735 in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a family of painter, clergyman and engraver Hryhoriy Levytsky.

Education

His father, Hryhoriy Levytsky, was his first art teacher. Later Dmitry Levitzky became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov.

He also studied in Poland and at the Kiev Theological Academy.

Career

In 1770, Levitzky became famous as a portrait painter after the exhibition of six of his portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. For the portrait of Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1769) he was appointed the Professor of the portrait painting class at the Academy of Arts. He remained on this position until 1788.

In 1772-1776 Levitzky worked on a series of portraits of the pupils of the privileged women establishment Smolny Institute for Young Ladies in St. Petersburg commissioned by Catherine II.

Though Levitzky had many commissions, they were, in most cases, poorly paid, and he died in poverty on April 17, 1822 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Achievements

• Dmitry Levitzky was the leading Russian painter of the latter half of the 18th century, as well as the first Russian painter to paint at the level of contemporary Western European masters.
  
  He was best known for the portrait of Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1769).

Works

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  • Philanthropic giver (Portrait of N. A. Sezemov)

  • Portrait of an Unknown Man from Saltykov Family

  • Portrait of Countess N. F. Vorontsova

  • Catherine II

  • Paul I of Russia

  • Portrait of V. I. Mitrofanov and M. A. Mitrofanova

  • Portrait of Countess Ursula Mniszek

  • Nikolai Lvov

  • Portrait of priest, Peter Levitzky

  • Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna as a Child

  • Portrait of Johann Hauffe

  • Countess Praskovia Vorontsova

  • Portrait of M. I. Mussar

  • Portrait of Iosif Igelström

  • Anna Dorothea Louise Schmidt, née. Baroness Klossen

  • Portrait of an Unknown Man

  • Princess Vorontsova Dashkova

  • Alexander Bezborodko

  • Portrait of Baron A. N. Stroganoff

  • Mikhail Sergeevich Potemkin

  • Portrait of Countess A. S. Protasova

  • Alexander Lanskoy

  • Ivan Bilibin

  • Portrait of Unknown Woman with a rose

  • Portrait of Catherine II

  • Portrait of I. I. Dmitriyev

  • Natalia Melgunova

  • Portrait of an Unknown Lady in a Pink Dress

  • Maria Pavlovna

  • Portrait of Anna Stepanovna Protassova, the former maid of honor of Catherine II

  • Portrait of Nikolay Lvov

  • Natalia Borshchova

  • Elena Kurakina, nee. Apraksina

  • Portrait of Ursula Mniszech

  • Portrait of Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice

  • Portrait of P. V. Bakunin

  • Portrait of Gubareva

  • Valentin Platonovich Musin Pushkin

  • Ekaterina Vorontsova

  • Portrait of Greate russian empress Catherine II

  • Alexander I, as a child

  • Catherine II

  • Portrait of Catherine II of Russia

  • Portrait of Denis Diderot

  • Portrait of N. Y. Levitsky (wife of the artist)

  • Ivan Bilibin

  • Portrait of Praskovia Repnina

  • Prince Mikhail Shcherbatov

  • Portrait of Countess Praskovya Vorontsova as a Child

  • Portrait of G. I. Alymova

  • Portrait of an uknown man

  • Portrait of an Unknown Man

  • Portrait of Anna Davia (D'Avia) Bernucci

  • Portrait of A. P. Levshina

  • Portrait of Praskovia Vorontsova

  • Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia

  • Portrait of princesses Davydova and Rzhevskaya

  • Portrait of Catherine Vorontsova

  • Portrait of I. V. Lopukhin

  • Baron Alexander Stroganov

  • Countess Maria Vorontsova

  • Count Ivan Grigoryevich Chernyshov

  • Dolgorukov

  • Portrait of N. Y. Levitzkaya, Artist's Wife

  • Portrait of A. D. Levitzkaya, Artist s Daughter

  • Portrait of Alexander Lanskoy, Aide-de-camp to the Empress

  • Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov

  • Alexander Khrapovitsky

  • Melgunov, Alexei Petrovich, Governor-General Yaroslavl and Vologda

  • Eustathius Palmenbah

  • Russian general Mikhail Krechetnikov

  • Count Artemiy Vorontsov

  • Ivan Abramovich Gannibal

  • Portrait of E. A. Vorontsova

  • Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna

  • Portrait of Maria Dyakova

  • Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia

  • Portrait of G. K. Levitzky, Artist s Father

  • Portrait of F.P. Makerovskiy in masquerade costume

  • Portrait of Prince Alexander Prozorovskiy

  • Portrait of Ekaterina Nelidova

  • Portrait of Procope Demidov

  • Lamb Ivan Varfolomeevich

  • Portrait of director of Capella Mark Fedorovich Poltoratsky

  • Portrait of Alexander Kokorinov, Director and First Rector of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

  • Ivan Ribotpierre

  • Portrait of Y. I. Bilibin

  • Portrait of Alexander Golytsyn

  • Portrait of Fedor Orlov

  • Maria Feodorovna

  • Portrait of Countess A. S. Protasova

  • Ivan Golenishcev-Kutuzov

  • Ekaterina Orlova

  • Portrait of Catherine II as Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice

  • Portrait of Nikolay Lvov

  • Portrait of Gubarev

  • Portrait of E. I. Molchanova

  • Portrait of V. I. and M. A. Mitrofanovs

  • Self-portrait

  • Portrait of Catherine Pavlovna

  • Ivan Glebov (Oscherin)

  • Portrait of Unknown Woman

  • Portrait of Countess Ekaterina Vorontsova as a Child

  • Portrait of E. N. Khruschova and Princess E. N. Khovanskaya

  • Portrait of Countess Anna Vorontsova as a Child

  • Portrait of Maria Alexeevna Lvova

  • Portrait of Suvorov

  • Ilya Andreevich Bezborodko

  • Portrait of A. I. Borisov

  • Portrait of Maria Palovna Narychkina

  • Portrait of Nikolai Novikov

  • Self-Portrait

  • Portrait of Countess Maria Vorontsova as a Child

Membership

Levytsky was elected an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

Connections

Father:

Hryhoriy Levytsky

teacher:

Aleksey Antropov