NIKITIN Ivan Nikitich

1680s, Moscow (?) - After 1741

Painter, portraitist. Son of a Moscow priest, brother of Roman Nikitin. Possibly educated at the Armoury School of Printing in Moscow. Lived in St Petersburg (from 1711). Studied under Tommaso Redi in Florence as a fellow of Peter the Great (1716-19). Returned to Russia (1720). Court portraitist (from 1721). Painted life portraits of Peter the Great on Kronstadt (1715-21). Married and divorced Maria Fyodorovna Mamens, lady of the bedchamber to Empress Catherine I (1727). Arrested in St Petersburg in connection with the libelling of Archbishop Feofan Prokopovich (1732). Spent five years in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Exiled to Siberia (1737). Released by the Privy Council (1742). Died on the way from Siberia to Moscow.

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Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of the Tsarevna Praskovia Ivanovna

Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of the Tsarevna Natalia Alexeyevna, Sister of Peter I

Before 1716

Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of a Field Hetman

1720s (1726 or 1727 (?))

Nikitin I.N.

Портрет Петра I

Nikitin I.N.

Peter I on His Death Bed

Early 1725

Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of Baron Sergei Stroganov, Youngest Son of the Salt manufacturer Grigory Stroganov and his Wife Maria

1726

Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of a Child

Before 8 August 1732

Nikitin I.N.

Portrait of a Young Man in a Green Coat

Before 8 August 1732

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