Background
Borovikovsky was born in Myrhorod, Ukraine, on August 4, 1757. His father, Luka Ivanovich Borovikovsky, was a Cossack and an amateur icon painter, and almost all the members of his family served in the Mirgorod regiment.
Borovikovsky was born in Myrhorod, Ukraine, on August 4, 1757. His father, Luka Ivanovich Borovikovsky, was a Cossack and an amateur icon painter, and almost all the members of his family served in the Mirgorod regiment.
Vladimir Borovikovsky studied painting with Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder, a professor of the Vienna Academy of the Arts.
According to the family tradition, Borovikovsky went into military service. When he achieved the rank of lieutenant Borovikovsky retired and fully devoted himself to art, mainly painting icons for local churches.
In the 1770s he became a close friend of Vasily Kapnist. Borovikovsky carried out Kapnist's commissions on painting interiors of his house. Vladimir Borovikovsky became a prominent master in Saint Petersburg after he was commissioned to decorate a temporary palace for Catherine II (the Great) on the Dnieper River at Kremenchug (present-day Kremenchuk, Ukraine). She was so satisfied with the result that she asked the painter to move to Saint Petersburg.
Since 1788 Borovikovsky resided in Petersburg, where got acquainted with his friends - Gavrila Derzhavin, Ivan Khemnitser, Yevstigney Fomin, and Dmitry Levitzky. In the late 1790s, Vladimir Borovikovsky gained the fame of a prominent portraitist. In 1794 Borovikovsky painted the portrait of Catherine II. He had his own studio and often allowed his assistants to paint the less important parts of portraits. Many of his portraits were intimate in style. One of the best works during this period was Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Lopukhina (1797).
Although Vladimir Borovikovsky never taught at the Imperial Academy of Art (later Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), some pupils lived in his home, including Alexey Venetsianov and Bugaevsky-Blagodarny.
In the last years of his life Borovikovsky returned to religious painting, in particular, he painted a few icons for the Kazan Cathedral (which was then under construction), and the iconostasis for the Smolensk Cemetery Church in Petersburg.
Vera Ivanovna Arseniev
Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church
Portrait of Elena Pavlovna
Portrait of F. A. Borovsky
Portrait of Alexeï Ivanovitch Vassiliev
Portrait of the Artist Dmitry Levitzky
Portrait of Ye. A. Arkharova
Portrait of Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna
Portrait of Alexander Semenovitsch Chvostov
Portrait of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich
Anna S. Bezobrazova
Portrait of E Temkina
Portrait of Murtaza Kuli Khan, brother of Aga Mahommed, the Persian Shah
Lizanka and Dashenka
Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
Alexander Fedoseevich Bestuzhev
Minas Lazarev Borovikovsky
Princess Lopukhina
Countess Vera Zavadovskaya
Elisabeth Alexeievna Tsarina of Russia
Portrait of D. P. Troschinsky
Portrait of Princess N.I. Kurakin
Portrait of Nikolai Sheremetev
Portrait of Daria Semyonovna Baratoff
Countess Ekaterina Riboper
Archangel Michael
Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra
Darya Alexandrovna Valuev
Mihailovsk castle
Portrait of Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Novosiltseva
Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Portrait of Dmitry Levitzky
Portrait of Alexander Dmitrievich Arseniev
Portrait of Aleksei Alekseevich Konstantinov
Ivan Dunin
Portrait of D.A. Derzhavina
Portrait of Elena Alexandrovna Naryshkina
Praskovia Bestuzhev
Portrait of A. G. and A. A. Lobanov Rostovsky
Portrait of Catherine Vasilevny Torsukovoy
Archangel Gavriil
Sofia, Vera, Nadezda i Lubov
Portrait of the Russian poet Evgeny Boratynsky
Nathalie Petrovna Golitsyn
Portrait of Emperor Paul I
The Nativity of Christ
Portrait of Adam Adamovich Menelas
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yakovlev
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
Portrait of Count Razumovsky
Maria Norova
Ivan Mikhailovich Yakovlev
Jesus
Portrait of Count Alexander Kurakin
Portrait of Prince G S Volkonsky
Portrait of E. N. Arsenyeva
Lopukhin Ekaterina
Ekaterina Davydova
Portrait of A.I. Bezborodko with daughters
Catherine Gavrilovna Gagarina
Christina, the Peasant Woman from Torzhok
Skobeeva
Portrait of Princess Margarita Ivanovna Dolgorukaya
Portrait of Martha Arbeneva
Portrait of Torsukov Ardalyon
Cleopatra Ilinichna Lobanova Rostovskaya
Portrait of Koshelev
Portrait of Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Portrait of the Russian poet Gavril Derzhavin
Portrait of Yuri F. Lisyansky
Portrait of Khristofor von Benckendorff
Portrait of Olga Filippova Kuzminichna
Varvara Andreyevna Tomilova
Children with a Lamb
Portrait of Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
Portrait G.S. Volokonsky
Ivan Mikhailovich Yakovlev
Maria Nikolaevna Yakovleva
Portrait of E. I. Nekludova
Portrait of Karadjordge
Jesus at the tomb
Portrait of Germaine de Stael
Naryshkina Elena
Portrait of A. and V. Gagarin
Portrait of Empress Maria Fyodorovna
Portrait of an unknown with a child
Portrait of the author Alexander Labsin
Paul I
Labzin Anna Evdokimovna
Portrait of Prince A. B. Kurakin
Portrait of Yekaterina Kropotova
Portrait of Paul I
Portrait of a member of the Chidbov Family
Portrait of Count G.G. Kushelev
Portrait of General adjutant Count Pyotr Tolstoy
Carenkov Masukov
Portrait of S. A. Rayevskaya
Andrew Samborski Afanasyevich
Portrait of M.I.Lopukhina
Alexander I
St. Alexander Nevsky
Paul I
Peter A Kikin
Rodzianko Ekaterina
Olenina Elizabeth Markovna
Archangel Michael
St. Juliana
St.Tsaritsa Alexandra