Mikhail Ivanovich Lebedev (Russian: Михаил Иванович Лебедев) (4 November 1811 – 13 July 1837) was a Russian painter.

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Mikhail Lebedev
Portrait sketch of Mikhail Lebedev by Nikolai Ramazanov
Born	(1811-11-04)4 November 1811 Tartu
Died	13 July 1837(1837-07-13) (aged 25) Naples
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1833)
Known for	Painting
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Biography

Lebedev was born in Tartu into the family of an impoverished serf. In the 1820s, serfdom was abolished in his region and the young Lebedev got an opportunity to study at a nearby school. His artistic endeavours attracted the attention of the Count Pahlen, who sent Lebedev to the Academy at Saint Petersburg with a full scholarship. In the Academy, Lebedev studied under Maxim Vorobiev. In 1833, he got the major gold medal for the painting View of Ladoga.

In 1834, he travelled to Italy on a pension and was met by the Russian artistic colony there, notably the native Karl Brullov. Lebedev loved to paint Italy’s natural landscapes; his landscape paintings are full of coloristic contrasts. Notable paintings derived from this period are Ariccia (near Rome) and View of Castel Gandolfo. Lebedev’s landscapes had an immediate success with the public. In 1837, Lebedev went to work in Naples, where an epidemic of cholera started. The artist became ill and died at the age of twenty-five.

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[de] Michail Iwanowitsch Lebedew

[fr] Mikhaïl Lebedev

[it] Michail Ivanovič Lebedev

[ru] Лебедев, Михаил Иванович (художник)