Fedor alekseev biography

The son of the guardian of the Academy of Sciences. He studied at the Academy of fine arts, 1766. In 1773 he was sent by the Academy of fine arts in Venice to specialize in decorative painting.Upon returning to St. Petersburg, works as a painter at drama school. In parallel, it is much copied in the newly opened Hermitage Museum, mainly paintings landscape painters. Alekseev began to paint views of St. Petersburg, in 1794, received the title of academician, and, hence, the recognition of him as a landscape painter. F. Y. Alexeyev was the beginning of the picture in Russian art of the city in painting. He traveled a lot and in the district of the XIX century wrote the types of provincial cities of Russia and Moscow.

F. Y. Alexeyev - the first Russian master paintings of the urban landscape. In 1766 - 73 years. studied at the Academy of arts, first in class "painting flowers and fruit", then in the landscape. In 1773 for .software landscape received a gold medal and was sent for three years in Venice studying painting theatrical scenery, although it did not match his inclinations.

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