Background
Yasevich Kazimir Antonovich was born in a noble family in Vilnius
Province. He admired painting from his childhood and studied it under an experienced
teacher. When Kazimir was 18, he was appointed to the position of a teacher of
drawing at the gymnasium of the province and city specialized school in
Mogilev. In 1833 he entered Academy of Arts. He graduated from it as a free
artist and got a silver medal for the portrait of canon Gintillo, painted from life.
Career
In 1859 Yasevich got the rank of an academician for art works, many years’ labour in the sphere of painting and training many artists. His big family was not endowed enough. But in spite of it Yasevich rented out his flat to the specialized school of painting for studies free of charge for 30 years. He also supported 3 pupils of the academy at his own expense.
Yasevich teached drawing in two gymnasiums of St. Petersburg. He worked with portraiture. Besides it he restored old paintings (he renewed paintings in the Hermitage Museum, in the palaces of the members of tsar’s family, in the galleries of well-known
collectors) and painted icons for the temples. Yasevich’s most distinctive paintings are “The woman, who frightened the birds”, “Seashore” and “The night by moonlight”. He stopped painting in the last years of his life. Yasevich died a poor man.