Self-Portrsit
1824
- oil on canvas. 63 х 49
- Ж-6376.
Пост. в 1923 из АХ- Received in 1923 from the Museum of the Academy of Arts, Petrograd
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Location in museum
The St Michael’s Castle
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Room 208 - Period Early 19th century
- CategoryPortrait
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Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (1780–1857), painter and portraitist, painted landscapes and genre-based and religious compositions. He was a serf of Count A. Münich, and later that of Count Irakly Morkov. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1798–1804) in the class of Stepan Shchukin as an external student. In spring 1823 he was released from his dependency as a serf. He was appointed Academician (20 September 1823) and Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (16 September 1824) for his work Portrait of the Medallist Karl Leberecht. From 1821 he lived and worked in Moscow. From 1807 he was married to Anna Katina. His son Arseny (1809–1885) was also an artist. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.