Biography of the artist Rokotov

The menu Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov E, possibly, the Vorontsovo estate - December 12 [24], Moscow is a Russian artist, the largest Moscow portrait, who worked during the Russian Education. Its origin remains debatable. In the year of the Velmozha, Ivan Shuvalov came to Moscow to recruit gifted young men for the Academy of Arts that was created at that time in St. Petersburg.

He noticed Rokotov and took him with him to the capital. Probably, the young man entered the land gentry corps, because in the first years after arriving in St. Petersburg he wrote mostly cadets. After receiving the rank of captain, who gave the nobility, he quit military service. Rokotov’s early work - loading portraits - give the impression of immediacy, even some uniskness.

In the "pioneers" on Rokotov, orders from the noble Moscow families, not spoiled by the attention of masterful artists, rained down. Rokotov took inexpensively for his work - only 50 rubles, 15 times less than the visiting foreigners demanded.

The main attention focused on the similarity of the face, not the decoration of the dress. Bogdan Umsky, who ordered him in the year a series of portraits of guardians of the Moscow Educational House, complained that such a young artist "was spent and important for glory." According to the entry in the journal of the Object Council of November 22, for portraits of S. Gagarin, P. Vyrubov and I.

Tyutchev, he received rubles: “Let us put the academician G-Din Rokotov for writing three guardianship portraits for each, to give out three hundred rubles from the guardian amount and henceforth to write the same ruble for each of the ruble.” Although the last portrait was not completed, it was also bought out and, among others, was in the educational house until the revolution.

This was the last official order adopted by Rikotov - from now on he worked only for private customers. From the end of x before the beginning of the 10ths, the artist wrote “All of Moscow”. Entire family galleries for example, the Counts of the Vorontsovs, depicting representatives of two or three generations of one family came out from under his brush. In the year, he acquired a land plot on the old Basmannoye, in the parish of the Church of the Great Martyr Nikitiv, the rocayal haze disappears from the Rokotovo portrait, which gave them an atmosphere of lack of missing, even some mystery.

The late Moscow portraits of Rokotov are elegant and impressive than the previous ones - closer to the style of classicism prevailing at that time. The last twenty years of the life of the information has been preserved little. The nephews brought up by him made a successful military career, one rose to the rank of major, the other-headquarters captain. The artist died in Moscow on December 12 24.

He was buried by his nephews in the cemetery of the Novospassky Monastery, where his grave was quickly lost. Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov E, possibly, the Vorontsovo estate - December 12 [24], Moscow is a Russian artist, the largest Moscow portrait, who worked during the Russian Education.