Dmytro Bezperchy

Dmytro Bezperchy studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Training under Karl Bryullov is recorded. Evgeny Andreevich Agafonov, Alexei Beketov and Vladimir Beklemishev are recorded as having studied under Dmytro Bezperchy. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is painting, graphics and visual art education.

• Name — Dmytro Bezperchy • Native Name — Дмитрий Безперчий • Born — 30 October 1825 • Birthplace — Borisovka, Borisovsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Empire, now Russia • Died — 30 September 1913 • Place of death — Kharkiv, Russian Empire • Movement — Academic art • Known for — Portraits, Illustrations • Illustration — The Bandurist

He studied art in Saint Petersburg, from 1841 to 1846, at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and was employed in the workshops of Karl Bryullov after 1843. There, he met the poet, Taras Shevchenko, who had a strong influence on his thematic choices. Upon graduating, he was named a "Free Artist"

Initially known for his watercolors, he also created numerous oil paintings, some graphic works depicting the Haydamak (paramilitary fighters), and illustrations for Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. From the 1860s to the 1890s, he also engaged in religious work, decorating churches in Sloboda Ukraine and Crimea. As a drawing teacher, he worked at the Nizhyn Lyceum, the Kharkiv gymnasium and the Realschule. Many of the best known names in Ukrainian and Polish art studied with him, including Henryk Siemiradzki, Serhii Vasylkivsky, Mykhailo Tkachenko, Petro Levchenko, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Beklemishev, Oleksandr Shevchenko, Konstantin Pervukhin, Oleksiy Beketov and Vladimir Tatlin.