Fyodor Rokotov
Illustration — Lady in a Pink Dress, 1770s Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (Fedor Rokotov) (1736 – December 24, 1808) was a Russian painter who specialized in portraits. Fyodor Rokotov was born in Vorotsovo (now a part of the Obruchevsky District of Moscow) into a family of peasant serfs, belonging to the Repnins. Much in his biography is obscure.
Also recorded as Fedor Stepanovič Rokotov · Fjodor Stepanokitsch Rokotoff · Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov · Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov
Fyodor Rokotov

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- Died
- 1808.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- painter and portraitist.
- Fields
- portrait.
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Illustration — Lady in a Pink Dress, 1770s Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (Fedor Rokotov) (1736 – December 24, 1808) was a Russian painter who specialized in portraits. Fyodor Rokotov was born in Vorotsovo (now a part of the Obruchevsky District of Moscow) into a family of peasant serfs, belonging to the Repnins. Much in his biography is obscure.
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Fyodor Rokotov (1735–1808) was a painter and portraitist, of Russian nationality. The painter was born in Vorontsovo estate and died in Moscow.
Fyodor Rokotov was educated at Imperial Academy of Arts. The painter worked in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Activity centred on portrait painting and Russian painting.
The work spans portrait. Languages used include Russian.
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He studied art in Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After buying back his freedom at the end of the 1750s he became established as a fashionable painter. In 1765, Rokotov was elected an Academician, but he did not work as a professor in the Academy long, because it interfered with his painting. He returned to Moscow in 1765, where he lived for the rest of his life. He had a lot of commissions there, becoming one of the best portrait painters of his time. Among his best-known portraits are Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya (1772), sometimes called the Russian Mona Lisa and admittedly the most celebrated piece of the 18th-century Russian painting; Portrait of Countess Elisabeth Santi (1785), and Lady in a Pink Dress (1770s, illustration, right). Rokotov avoided painting formal portraits with much adornment and decoration. Instead he was one of the first Russian painters advancing a psychological portrait with attention to optical and atmospheric effects.
• Illustration — Emperor Paul I as a Child. 1761 • Illustration — Count I. G. Orlov. c.1762-1765 • Illustration — Catherine II, 1770 • Illustration — Alexandra Struyskaya. 1772 • Illustration — Ivan Shuvalov 1760 • Illustration — Anna Yuryevna Kvashnina-Samarina. 1770s • Illustration — Princess Darya Gruzinskaya, late 1700s • Illustration — Lady in a White Cap. 1790s • Illustration — Countess Anna Buturlina, c. 1793. • Illustration — Nikita Ivanovich Panin,1760s
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The authorities additionally record the headings Fedor Stepanovič Rokotov, Fjodor Stepanokitsch Rokotoff, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov, Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov and Fjodor Stepanowitsch Rokotoff. His recorded language was Russian.

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1735
Fyodor Rokotov born at Vorontsovo estate.
1808
Fyodor Rokotov died at Moscow.
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The creativity of Fyodor Rokotov in the research of A.V. The creativity of Fyodor Rokotov in the research of A.V. Case of Fyodor Rokotov: A Dialogue between Experts and Art Historians, Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021.
Rokotov, Fyodor, Oxford Art Online, 2003
The creativity of Fyodor Rokotov in the research of A.V. Case of Fyodor Rokotov: A Dialogue between Experts and Art Historians, Izvestia of the Ural federal university
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