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Aleksey Petrovich Antropov
 

Antropov Aleksey Petrovich


(b 14 March 1716; d St Petersburg, 12 June 1795). Russian painter. He trained at the Construction Office in St Petersburg, where his teachers included Ivan Vishnyakov, in whose team of painters Antropov later worked. He participated in the decorative painting of the Winter Palace and other imperial residences in St Petersburg and its environs. In 1752 he embarked on painting Andreyevsky Cathedral in Kiev and produced icons for its iconostasis. He returned to St Petersburg in 1758 and then trained for two years with Pietro Antonio Rotari. Soon afterwards he was appointed principal supervisor of the artists and icon painters of the Synod.

Uknknown Lady

Portrait of Elizabeth of Russia

Portrait of Great Duchess Ekateriana Alexeyevna (future Catherine II)

Portrait of Catherine II
before 1766

Portrait of Catherine II

Portrait of Grand Duke Peter Fedotovich (later Peter III)

Peter III

Portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna

Portrait of Peter the Great
1772

Portrait of Princess T. A. Trubetzkaya

Portrait of Catherine II the Great

Portrait of archbishop Gavriil Petrov

Portrait of Anna Vasiliyevna Buturlina

Portrait of M.A. Rumyantseva
1764

Portrait of Father Fyodor Dubyansky