Lady in a pink dress, 1770s

Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov (Федор Степанович Рокотов 1736-1809) - was Russian painter. Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Fedor Rokotov was born in family of peasant serfs peasants of Prince Repnin. He studied art in Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. After buying back his freedom in the end of 50ies he became a well-known painter. Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. ... The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as St Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name of Academy of Three Noblest Arts in 1757. ...

In 1765, Rokotov was elected an Academician, but he did not work as a professor in the Academy long, because it interfered with his painting. He returned to Moscow in 1765, where he lived the rest of his life. He had a lot of commissions there, becoming one of the best portrait painters of his time. Among his best portraits are Portrait of Alexandra Struiskaya (1772), Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Santi (1785), Lady in a Pink Dress (1770s). He avoided painting formal portraits with lot of accesuars. Instead he was one of the first Russian painters developing genre of a psychological portrait with attention to optical and atmospheric effects. 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an academy. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Some works

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Sources

• V.N. Alexanderov "History of Russian Art", Moscow, 2004, ISBN 985-13-1199-5
• [Rokotov at Olga's gallery]