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Kiprensky, Orest

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Kiprensky, Orest (b Oranienbaum district, Petersburg province, 24 Mar. 1782; d Rome, 24 Oct. 1836). Russian painter, active for much of his career in Italy. He was the leading Russian portraitist of the Romantic era, combining the then fashionable attitude of ‘Byronic’ melancholy with an elegance that earned him the nickname ‘the Russian van Dyck’.

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Kiprensky, Orest

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

Kiprensky, Orest (1782–1836). Russian painter, active for much of his career in Italy. He was the leading Russian portraitist of the Romantic era; in his work he combined the then fashionable attitude of ‘Byronic’ melancholy with an elegance that earned him the nickname ‘the Russian van Dyck’.

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IAN CHILVERS. "Kiprensky, Orest." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-KiprenskyOrest.html

IAN CHILVERS. "Kiprensky, Orest." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-KiprenskyOrest.html

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