Antropov A. P. Portrait of Sylvester Kulyabka

Antropov A. P.

1716, St. Petersburg - 1795, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Sylvester Kulyabka

Archbishop of St Petersburg and Schlüsselburg. 1760

oil on canvas. 102 x 77,5
Ж-4916
Received in 1922

Period 18th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761) | male portrait | clergy, monkhood | liturgical clothing | Jewellery
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The portrait is one of a series of portraits of archimandrites of the St Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg painted by Alexei Antropov in the 1760s and 1770s.

Sylvester (Semyon) Kulyabka (1701 or 1704–1761) was rector of Kiev Religious Academy (1740), Archbishop of St Petersburg and Schlüsselburg and Archimandrite of the St Alexander Nevsky Monastery (from 1750). The subject is depicted in the vestments of an archbishop, with a crosier and a panagia. On the background is the Kulyabka family coat of arms. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 78.

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