Andrey Ivanov (painter)

Andrey Ivanov
Андрей Иванович Ива́нов
Portrait by Ivan Bugayevsky-Blagodarny, 1824, oils; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
Born1775
Moscow
DiedJuly 12, 1848(1848-07-12) (aged 72–73)
St. Petersburg
Resting place
Smolensky Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Education
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1797)
Known forHistory painting
Spouse
Yekaterina Dimmert
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(m. 1800; died 1843)​
Children10, including Alexander
AwardsBig Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1797) Big Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1797)
ElectedMember Academy of Arts (1803)
Professor by rank (1812)

Andrey Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Андре́й Ива́нович Ива́нов; 1775, Moscow - 24 July 1848, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter in the Neo-Classical style, active in St. Petersburg during Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I's reigns, best known for his history pictures.[1]

Biography

He was abandoned by his parents and was raised at the Moscow Orphanage. He was enrolled in the elementary courses at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1782, and later studied with Grigory Ugryumov[1] and Gabriel François Doyen, graduating in 1797. He began teaching there in 1798 and became an Academician in 1803. During this time, he was engaged in copying the old Italian masters and painting icons. In 1812 he was appointed a Professor[2] for his painting of Prince Mstislav the Brave and the defeat of Rededya.[1] In 1820, he painted the fresco "Minerva Hovering in the Sky" for the iron staircase at the Academy.

His painting based on the episode from the Napoleonic Wars, The Death of General Kulnev, angered Tsar Nicholas I when it was exhibited in 1830,[2] apparently because it portrayed a controversial (and almost certainly apocryphal) moment from the incident; Kulnev's order to his allied officers to remove their insignia so the enemy wouldn't know that the Russian army was without a commander. As a result, Ivanov was removed from the Academy, on the Tsar's insistence.[2] A few years later, when Karl Bryullov returned to Russia and was presented with a laurel wreath, he took it off his head and placed it on Ivanov's instead, as a sign of respect and appreciation.

Despite his forced retirement, Ivanov remained active as a painter and member of several artistic societies. He died of cholera.[2] The Ivanovs' burial, in the Smolensky Cemetery, seems to be lost by the 1850s.[3][4] His son was the painter Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wikisource (Russian): Biography from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary by Andrei Somov
  2. 1 2 3 4 RusArtNet: Biography
  3. ↑ Ivanov 1880, p. 350; Ivanov 2001, p. 634.
  4. ↑ Kobak, Alexander V. [in Russian] and Piryutko, Yuri M. [in Russian], eds. (2011). Исторические кладбища Санкт-Петербурга (in Russian). Moscow: Tsentpoligraf. p. 314. ISBN 978-5-227-02688-0. OCLC 812571864.
  5. ↑ Stepanova, Svetlana S. [in Russian] (2018). "Заказ для китайской духовной миссии русскому академику" [Mission to Peking. Andrei Ivanov’s Commission for the Russian Legation in China, and the Return of "St. Ambrose" to the Tretyakov]. Tretyakov Gallery Magazine. No. 58. pp. 26–47. ISSN 1729-7621.

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