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Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Тропи́нин; March 30 [O.S. March 19] 1776 – May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1857) was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Gold-Embroideress.

Vasily Tropinin
Self portrait
Born	Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-03-30)March 30, 1776 Korpovo village, near Novgorod, Russian Empire
Died	May 16, 1857(1857-05-16) (aged 81) Moscow, Russian Empire
Resting place	Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Russian
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1824)
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1804)
Known for	Painting, Drawing
Movement	Romanticism

Biography

Vasily was born as a serf of Count Munnich in the village Korpovo of Novgorod guberniya. He was transferred to Count Morkov as part of the dowry of Munnich's daughter. Soon he was sent to Saint Petersburg to study the trade of a confectioner. Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1799, his owner allowed Tropinin's to study at the Academy as a non-degree student (Postoronny uchenik). He took lessons from S. S. Schukin and was supported by the President of the Academy Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov. In 1804 Tropinin's work Boy Grieving for a Dead Bird was exhibited in the Academy's exhibition and was noted by the Russian Empress at the time (most probably the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna).

At the dawn of his success, Count Morkov recalled Tropinin from St. Petersburg to his Ukrainian estate Kukavka. Tropinin was appointed a confectioner and a lackey. Soon the owner changed his mind and assigned Tropinin to copy the works of European and Russian painters and produce portraits of the Morkovs. Tropinin also painted the local church. Tropinin spent around twenty years of his life in Ukraine, and many of his works from that time were of Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian country side.[1]

Still Tropinin continued to work and study. As a well-established portraitist, he wrote:

I studied little...at the Academy, but I learned...in Malorossia. There I painted from nature without rest, painted everything and everyone and these works, it seems, are the best of all of those created by me thus far.[2]

The most notable works of that period are Portrait of A. I. Tropinina, the Artist's Wife (1809), Portrait of Arseny Tropinin, son of the artist (c. 1818), Portrait of the Writer and Historian N. M. Karamzin (1818).

Academician

In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official certificate of a painter (Svobodnyj Khudozhnik). In 1824 he was elected an Academician.

Since 1833 he mastered the Moscow Public Art Classes that later became the famous Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1843 he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow Art Society. He died in 1857 and was interred in Vagankovo Cemetery. During his life Tropinin painted more than 3,000 portraits.

In 1969 the Tropinin Museum[3] was opened in Moscow.

Works

• Vasily Tropinin's works
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  Girl from Podolye, 1804-1807
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  Family portrait of counts Morkovs, 1813
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  Portrait of Arseny Tropinin, son of the artist, 1818
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  Portrait of Nikolay Karamzin, 1818
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  Coachman 1820
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  Ustym Karmeliuk, 1820s
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  Konstantin Ravich, 1823
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  Woman at the window, 1841
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  The Gold-Embroideress, 1826
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  Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, 1827
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  Portrait of Vasily Karatygin, 1842
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  Portrait Of A.F. Mazurina, 1839

References

External links

• Tropinin's gallery

На других языках

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[de] Wassili Andrejewitsch Tropinin

Wassili Andrejewitsch Tropinin (russisch Василий Андреевич Тропинин, wiss. Transliteration Vasilij Andreevič Tropinin; * 19. Märzjul. / 30. März 1776greg. im Gouvernement Nowgorod; † 3. Maijul. / 15. Mai 1857greg. in Moskau) war ein russischer Maler, der mit Porträtmalerei bekannt wurde.

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- [en] Vasily Tropinin

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[es] Vasili Tropinin

Vasili Andréievich Tropinin (en ruso: Василий Андреевич Тропинин; 30 de marzo de 1776 – 16 de mayo de 1857) fue un pintor romántico de Rusia. Gran parte de su vida fue siervo. Solo obtuvo su libertad pasados los cuarenta años. Su obra más famosa es un retrato de Aleksandr Pushkin.

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[fr] Vassili Tropinine

Vassili Andreïevich Tropinine (en russe : Василий Андреевич Тропинин) est un peintre romantique russe, né le 30 mars 1776 dans le gouvernement de Novgorod et mort le 16 mai 1857 à Moscou.

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[it] Vasilij Andreevič Tropinin

Vasilij Andreevič Tropinin (in russo: Василий Андреевич Тропинин?; Korpovo, 19 marzo 1776 – Mosca, 3 maggio 1857) è stato un pittore russo, formatosi all'Accademia di Belle Arti di San Pietroburgo e noto per un famoso ritratto di Aleksandr Sergeevič Puškin.

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[ru] Тропинин, Василий Андреевич

Васи́лий Андре́евич Тропи́нин (19 [30] марта 1776, с. Карпово, Новгородская губерния — 3 [16] мая 1857, Москва) — русский живописец, мастер романтического и реалистического портретов.

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