Russian painter, watercolorist and Academician
Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov
(
Russian
:
Михаи?л Матве?евич Ива?нов
; 1748,
St. Petersburg
? 28 (
16
) August 1823, St. Petersburg) was a Russian painter,
watercolorist
, and Academician.
Biography
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His father was a soldier in the
Semyonovsky Regiment
. In 1762, he and his brother,
Arkhip
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ru
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were admitted to the
Imperial Academy of Arts
. He initially took practical courses on painting with
varnishes
then, in 1764, became a student of
Ivan Groot
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ru
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, who instructed him in painting birds, animals and flowers. He was awarded a silver medal in 1769, followed by a gold medal in 1770, for his landscape with
staffage
, depicting an olive tree with military paraphernalia, soldiers and shepherds. This also earned him a study trip to Western Europe.
In Paris he studied with
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
, with whom he copied landscapes by the
Old Masters
. He was especially drawn to Dutch and Flemish artists.
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In 1773, he and Arkhip went to Rome, where he painted landscapes en
plein aire
and copied more of the Old Masters, many of which he sent back to the Academy. By the time he returned to Russia, in 1779, he had travelled through Spain and Switzerland. Upon his return, the Academy recognized him as a candidate for the title of "Academician".
In 1780, he was assigned to accompany Prince
Grigory Potemkin
and, per the Prince's instructions, paint all places and events that were in any way "remarkable".
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He made numerous drawings and watercolors throughout
Crimea
and the
Caucasus
, as well as battle scenes, depicting the
Siege of Ochakov (1788)
and the
Siege of Izmail
(1790). It was during this time, in 1785, that he was finally named an Academician. His last work on this assignment was a depiction of Potemkin's death in
Bessarabia
(1791), which was engraved by
Gavriil Skorodumov
and widely distributed.
After that, he returned to St. Petersburg and served as curator at the
Hermitage Museum
. In 1792, he married Skorodumov's widow, Maria Ivanovna. From 1800, he taught classes in
battle painting
at the Academy. From 1804, he also taught landscape painting.
Some of the works
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References
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Sources
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Further reading
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- Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov
,
Михаил Матвеевич Иванов
, State Publishing House, Moscow, 1950
- S. N. Kondakov,
Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764?1914
(Anniversary directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts), Golike and Vilborg, 1914?1915, Part II, pg.80
- "Progenitor of the Crimean Landscape"
, (Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov - battle painter at the general staff) by Tatyana Shorokhova @ Журнальный мир
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