Andrei Frantsevich Belloli (Russian: Андрей Францевич Беллоли; 1820,

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- 1881,

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) was a Papal States-born

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n painter; known primarily for his female nudes.

Biography

He studied art at the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

. During the

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, he left Italy. In 1850, he settled in Saint Petersburg and initially worked as a decorative painter for churches and palaces; creating everything from small door decorations to

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s. Later he began to do portraits; mostly of women and children, in oils and colored pencils. He participated regularly in exhibitions and, in 1861, was named an "Academician" for portrait painting by the

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. In 1869, he organized an exhibition and sale, with the proceeds to benefit poor students and the widows and orphans of artists.Brief biography
@ Russian Paintings. In 1870, for his fiftieth birthday, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus. That same year, he donated one of his best-known works "After the Bath" to the Academy's museum. He created several variations on this theme, one of which ("The Bather") was purchased by Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich. It is now at the

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, where the Grand Duke died. Although his paintings were popular with the public, they generally received poor critical notices. In 1877, the writer and critic, Vsevolod Garshin dismissed them as "nice, pretty ladies" with no emotional content."The second exhibition of the "Society of exhibitions of works of art"
from ''Novosti'', #68 @ Lib.ru: "Классика". For many years, he continued to be involved in activities that benefitted Russian art and artists but, for unknown reasons, he committed suicide in 1881.

Works

File:Apraksina by Andrey Belloly.jpg, Alexandra Apraksina (Pashkova) (1863) File:Andrey Belloly 1.jpg, The Bather (1871) Andrey Belloly 2.jpg, Bather after the bath (1875) Andrey Belloly 3.jpg, Bather
(alternate version) File:Belloli-Pius.jpg, Pope Pius IX (about 1878)

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