Alexei Ivanovich Belsky ( 1726 , St. Petersburg - May 21 ( June 1 ) 1796 , St. Petersburg) - Russian artist , from the Belsky dynasty, famous Russian serfs painters of the 18th century ; Academician of the Academy of Arts .
| Alexey Ivanovich Belsky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1726 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | May 21 ( June 1 ) 1796 |
| A place of death | St. Petersburg |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
Biography
Alexey Belsky painted mainly landscapes, allegories and paintings on historical subjects. Being enrolled with his brother Ivan Ivanovich in the " Office of the buildings " in the mid 1740s, he studied with Girolamo Bon, I. Ya. Vishnyakov and others.
He painted the St. Andrew's Church in Kiev , the palace churches of the imperial residences, created theatrical scenery, plafonds and panels for the imperial palaces in Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo .
Alexey and Ivan Belsky are listed in the register of artists who were sent to Moscow in 1762 “alongside” to paint the Triumphal Gates, arranged on the occasion of the ceremonial entry to the coronation of Catherine II . On this register, by the hand of Jacob Shtelin , who directed the device of the “artistic part” of coronation celebrations, a note was made opposite the name of Alexei Ivanovich: “a good decorator”.
In 1764 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Arts. Since the mid-1760s, he was considered an “appointed artist”. In 1771, for a series of four moral pictures, panels made to decorate the Smolny Institute , he received a prize from the Academy of 70 rubles. (now a panel in the Russian Museum ). In 1772, the Academy arranged an exam for A. I. Belsky, according to which the Bureau of Construction Affairs made him a master, and in 1773, on the basis of the Academy’s charter, Alexei Belsky and his offspring received liberties.
A.I. Belsky enjoyed the fame of the best (along with J. Valeriani ) masters of decorative painting. The works of Aleksey Ivanovich (" Desyuport with a Parrot", 1754, Russian Museum , St. Petersburg; "Architectural View", 1789, Tretyakov Gallery ) are executed in a wide pictorial manner, often including landscape and genre motifs.
Gallery
"Never be idle." 1771
"Do not harm any animal and do not embitter it." 1771
"Do not do evil and do not annoy anyone." 1771
"Do not lie". 1771
"Architectural view." 1789
“Desudeport with a Parrot”, 1754
Literature
- Belsky, Alexey Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- History of Russian art. - V. 5. - M. , 1960 .-- S. 339-352.
- Bielskie // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Belsky / A. M. Muratov // "Banquet Campaign" 1904 - Big Irgiz. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 296. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 3). - ISBN 5-85270-331-1 .