Orest Adamovich Kiprensky

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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky

Russian artist

Written by Andrei D. Sarabianov

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Born:: March 13 [March 24, New Style], 1782, Koporye village, near St. Petersburg, Russia

Died:: Oct. 5 [Oct. 17], 1836, Rome [Italy] (aged 54)

Movement / Style:: Romanticism

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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (born March 13 [March 24, New Style], 1782, Koporye village, near St. Petersburg, Russia—died Oct. 5 [Oct. 17], 1836, Rome [Italy]) was a Russian artist and pioneer of Romanticism who was a master of portrait painting and the father of Russian portrait drawing. Kiprensky’s birth was the result of a casual affair between a nobleman and a servant, and it would have been unremarkable had not a serf married the pregnant woman and raised the boy as his own. Six years later Kiprensky’s biological father, Aleksey Dyakonov, arranged for the boy to be a boarder at the ...(100 of 602 words)

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