Orest Kiprensky

Orest Kiprensky studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck and Jacopo Tintoretto are recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Alexander Pushkin, Portrait of A.A.Chelishchev, Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov, Gazette readers in Naples and Portrait of Count Grigory Kushelev (1754-1833). Work by Orest Kiprensky is recorded in the collections of Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery of Armenia and National Museum in Warsaw. Distinctions recorded are Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

• Name — Orest Kiprensky • Birth Name — Orest Adamovich Kiprensky • Born — 24 March 1782 • Birthplace — Nezhnovo, Yamburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 17 October 1836 • Place of death — Rome, Papal States (now Italy) • Resting Place — Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome • Field — Portrait painting • Training — Grigory Ugryumov • Education — Alumni • Elected — Member • Movement — Romanticism • Works — * Alexander Pushkin, 1827 • Newspaper Readers in Naples, 1831 • Awards — Medal Big Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts

Orest was born in the village of Nezhnovo in the Saint Petersburg Governorate on 24 March 1782. He was an illegitimate son of a landowner Alexey Dyakonov, hence his name, derived from Kypris, one of the Greek names for the goddess of love. He was raised in the family of Adam Shvalbe, a serf. Although Kiprensky was born a serf, he was released from the serfdom upon his birth and later his father helped him to enter a boarding school at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1788 (when Orest was only six years old). He studied at the boarding school and the Imperial Academy itself until 1803. He lived at the academy for three more years as a pensioner to fulfill requirements necessary to win the Major Gold medal. Winning the first prize for his work Prince Dmitri Donskoi after the Battle of Kulikovo (1805) enabled the young artist to go abroad to study art in Europe. A year before his graduation, in 1804, he painted the portrait of Adam Shvalbe, his foster father (1804), which was a great success. The portrait so impressed his contemporaries, that later members of the Naples Academy of Arts took it for the painting by some Old Master – Rubens or van Dyck. Kiprensky had to ask the members of the Imperial Academy of Arts for letters supporting his authorship. After that, Kiprensky lived in Moscow (1809), Tver 1811, Saint Petersburg 1812, in 1816–1822 he lived in Rome and Naples. In Italy he met a local girl Anna Maria Falcucci (Mariucci), to whom he became attached. He bought her from her dissolute family and employed as his ward. On leaving Italy, he sent her to a Roman Catholic convent. In 1828, Kiprensky came back to Italy, as he got a letter from his friend Samuil Galberg, informing him that they had lost track of Mariucci. Kiprensky found Mariucci, who had been transferred to another convent. In 1836 he eventually married her. He had to convert into Roman Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy for this marriage to happen. He died by pneumonia in Rome later that year. He has been interred into the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte.

• Illustration — Adam Schwalbe, the painter's stepfather, 1804 • Illustration — Countess Yekaterina Rostopchina, 1809 • Illustration — Count Fyodor Rostopchin, 1809 • Illustration — Evgraf Davydov, 1809 • Illustration — The Young Man in a Spanish Costume, the so-called Vasily Perovsky, 1811 • Illustration — Vasily Zhukovsky, 1815 • Illustration — Sergey Uvarov, 1815 • Illustration — The Young Man in a Neckerchief, the so-called Karl Ivanovich Albrecht, с. 1816 • Illustration — Anna Maria Falcucci as the Girl in a Poppy Wreath Holding a Carnation, 1819 • Illustration — Alexander Shishkov, 1825 • Illustration — Nikita Petrovich Trubetzkoy, 1826 • Illustration — Alexander Pushkin, 1827 • Illustration — Ekaterina Telesheva, 1828 • Illustration — Newspaper Readers in Naples, 1831 • Illustration — Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1833 • Illustration — Pyotr Olenin, 1813 • Illustration — Yefim Chaplits, 1813 • Illustration — Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov, 1815 • Illustration — Konstantin Batyushkov, 1815 • Illustration — Sofya Rostopchina, Countess of Ségur, 1823

The authorities additionally record the headings Orest Adamovich Kiprenskiĭ, Orest Kiprenskiĭ, Orest Adamowitsch Schwalbe, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky and Orest Adamowitsch Kiprenskij. His recorded language was Russian.

Works recorded as notable number 5: Alexander Pushkin, Portrait of A.A.Chelishchev, Portrait of Life Guard Colonel Yevgraf Davydov, Gazette readers in Naples and Portrait of Count Grigory Kushelev (1754-1833). His recorded genre is portrait.

Orest Kiprensky is recorded as having received Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts.