Mikhail Shibanov

Background

Mikhail Shibanov was born in Myasoyedovo, Russian Federation. His date of birth is unknown. He was a painter from serfs.

Education

In 1770-1780, Mikhail Shibanov studied at the Academy of Arts, in the class of household painting.

Career

Mikhail Shibanov was a serf of Prince Grigory Potemkin. Thus, being a painter, he received commissions from noble people and the Empress herself.

In 1774, he painted a work of the domestic genre, the painting "Peasants' meal", and in 1777 - "The celebration of the wedding agreement". These paintings are made in the Realism style. He also accomplished his most known work, a portrait of Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov, in 1785.

Shibanov died sometime after 1798, the date of his death is uncertain.

Achievements

• Mikhail Shibanov was a portrait painter, a realist artist, an innovator in the household genre, who wrote works on the plot from the life of the peasants, which in those days did not give him success.
  
  Nevertheless, Shibanov was known for the portrait of Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov, made in 1785, and the portrait of Empress Catherine II with traveling dress, made in 1787.
  
  Currently, two of his genre scenes are held at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The portrait of Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov is in the Russian Museum now.

Works

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  • Alexandr Matveevich Dmitriev-Mamonov

  • Catherine the Great

  • Peasants' meal

  • Portrait of Empress Catherine II with traveling dress

  • Portrait of A. G. Spiridov

  • St. Catherine

  • The celebration of the wedding agreement

Connections

patron:

Grigory Potemkin-Tavricheski