Ivan Vishnyakov

Training under Louis Caravaque and Andrey Matveyev is recorded. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kyiv, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Work by Ivan Vishnyakov is recorded in the collections of Russian Museum and Hermitage Museum.

He was briefly apprenticed to be a varnisher, then was sent to the "Канцелярия от строений" (Chancellory of Buildings) in 1727, where he studied under Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter living in Russia, and Andrey Matveyev. He qualified as a master painter in 1739 and became head of the Chancellory after Matveyev's early death. He painted murals in many of the palaces and churches of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, including the Summer Palace, the Anichkov Palace and the Winter Palace. He also did portraits and icons, restored paintings and appraised the works of foreign artists. His portraits were among the first to depart from the flat, static style favored at the Imperial Court. Among his best-known students were Alexei Antropov, Alexei Ivanovich Belsky and Ivan Firsov. In 1740 he attained the rank of Court Counselor (a civil ranking equal to lieutenant-colonel) and in 1752 became a Collegiate Assessor.

• Illustration — Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna (c. 1740) • Illustration — Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (1743) • Illustration — Vasily Daragan (1745) • Illustration — Matvey Semyonovich Begichev (1757)

Ivan Vishnyakov is recorded with the occupation painter. Institutional cataloguing adds that ivan Vishnyakov is recorded with the occupation iconographer. It is also recorded that ivan Vishnyakov is recorded as a citizen of Russian Empire. Recorded with the gender male. Born on 1 January 1699. It is also recorded that ivan Vishnyakov died on 8 August 1761. Vishnyakov worked at Kyiv. The record continues: ivan Vishnyakov worked at Moscow. Vishnyakov worked at Saint Petersburg. The same evidence establishes that ivan Vishnyakov is classed in the genre portrait.