Vasily tropinin biography

Vasily Tropinin (30 March 1776, Karpovo, Novgorod Governorate — 15 May 1857, Moscow) was Ukrainian and Russian serf artist.

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In his youth, he painted portraits of his owners, members of the family of Count Morkov, colourful Ukrainian old men and big-eyed peasants. He designed a church near the Kukavka estate and covered its walls with frescoes, while in between he did his housework, painted wells and gates. Having attained his freedom only at the age of 47, he became the main Moscow portrait painter, the favourite and demanded.

Vasily Tropinin’s paintings can be used to enumerate wealthy famous Moscow men and women who lived in the first half of the 19th century.

Peculiar features of Vasily Tropinin’s art: Muscovites nicknamed the painter “a robe portraitist”, because those who came for a portrait for a family gallery asked to paint themselves or their relatives exclusively in robes.

Unlike metropolitan artists from St. Vasily Tropinin - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia COS