Stepan Fyodorovich Alexandrovsky (Russian: Степан Фёдорович Александровский; (25 December 1842, Riga - 1 February 1906,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian portrait painter and

watercolorist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

Biography

He attended a classical grammar school and was originally planning for a career in medicine, but soon found himself attracted to art. In pursuit of that, he moved to saint Petersburg and began auditing classes at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the T ...

. One of his portraits was awarded a small silver medal in 1861. He was a regular participant in the Academy's exhibitions and was named an "Artist" in 1864. Later he became a "First-Class Artist" (1869). He was named an "Academician" in 1874 for his portrait of War Minister,

Dmitry Milyutin Count Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin ( rus, Граф Дми́трий Алексе́евич Милю́тин, tr. ; 28 June 1816, Moscow – 25 January 1912, Simeiz near Yalta) was Minister of War (1861–81) and the last Field Marshal of I ...

. By 1884, he was a "Free Artist" and honorary member of the Academy. He was one of the founding members of the . Among his best-known works are a series of portrait albums: thirty of Central Asian dignitaries who came to Moscow for the coronation of Alexander III (1884); forty-five of the Knights of various military orders (1886); and members of an embassy from 'Abd al-Ahad Khan, the Emir of Bukhara (1889). He also provided illustrations for several periodicals and participated in exhibitions held by the

Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (Russian: Императорское общество поощрения художеств (ОПХ)) was an organization devoted to promoting the arts that existed in Saint Petersburg from 182 ...

.Biographical notes
@ RusArtNet.

Works

File:Fyodor Tyutchev.jpg, Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1876) File:Luigi Premazzi.jpg, Luigi Premazzi (1882) File:Alexandrovsky-Lady.jpg, Young Lady (1886) File:Alexandrovsky-Girl.jpg, Portrait of a Young Girl (earlier 1906) File:Alexandrovsky-Elizabeth.png, Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna (earlier 1906)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexandrovsky, Stepan 1842 births 1906 deaths Artists from Riga People from Kreis Riga 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 20th-century Russian painters Russian watercolorists Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts Burials at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian male artists