Mikhail Ivanovich Lebedev (russian: link=no, Михаил Иванович Лебедев) (4 November 1811 – 13 July 1837) was a Russian painter.
Biography
Lebedev was born in
Dorpat
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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
Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (russian: Максим Никифорович Воробьёв; 17 August 1787, in Pskov – 11 September 1855, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian landscape painter.
Biography
He was the son of a retired soldier wh ...
. 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
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. Lebedev loved to paint Italy’s natural landscapes; his landscape paintings are full of coloristic contrasts. Notable paintings derived from this period are ''
Ariccia
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'' (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
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, where an epidemic of cholera started. The artist became ill and died at the age of twenty-five.
References
External links
Olga's GalleryBiography@ RusArtNet
@ "Russian Painting"
1811 births
1837 deaths
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
Russian male painters
Deaths from cholera
Infectious disease deaths in Campania
People from Tartu
19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire
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