Wilhelm August Golicke (russian: Вильгельм-Август Голике / Василий Александрович Голике; 1802 – 5 July 1848) was a

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painter.

Life and paintings

He was born in

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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 ...

. He grew up in the German community of Tallinn ("Reval", in German),RusArtNet: Wilhelm Golicke
/ref> and studied in Saint Petersburg at the studios of the English painter

George Dawe George Dawe (6 February 1781 – 15 October 1829) was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. He relocated to Saint Pete ...

. Between 1822 and 1828 Dawe, together with Golicke and another of his students, Alexander Polyakov, a serf, painted 332 portraits of Tsarist Generals who had distinguished themselves in the war against

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. The paintings were placed in the

Military Gallery of the Winter Palace The Military Gallery (russian: Военная галерея) is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812. The portraits were pain ...

. Dawe became a good friend of Golicke's during their work together and left him an annuity in his will. After Dawes' death, Golicke studied 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 Thre ...

. He graduated in 1832 and was named an "Independent Artist" (Cвободный Xудожник), a sign of official recognition. In 1837, he visited England and Italy. He died in Saint Petersburg, of

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, in 1848. His post-Dawe work consisted largely of

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paintings, still-lifes and scenes from history. Many of his works can be seen at the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

in Moscow.

References

External links

PetroArt: Brief ungrammatical biography of Golicke with link to portraits.

AskArt: "The Fruit Seller" and "The Fisherman", by Golicke
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