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Among the first students to visit Italy
after Napoleon's defeat was Orest Adamovich Kiprenskii, 1782-1836. His romantic
nature helped him to forget a good part of what he had learned in Saint
Petersburg and embrace Romanticism, and when he returned to his country he
introduced his own variation of the new style and became a proponent of Russian
romantic portraiture. But before this happened, it appears that he spent time
in Italy studying Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and other great masters than
learning about contemporary leaders of the Romantic movement. Kiprenskii came
from a poor family. His nominal father, Adam Karlovich Schwalbe, was of German
origin, and was married to a Russian woman. Here we have a painting of anoble
woman
Here we show Kiprenskii's portrait of - and below that his portrait of the
young Countess Rostopchina (1809)
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