The main artist of the Holy Synod, the academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, was the penultimate Auditor iconography with NE. Synod, the teacher of the famous Levitsky, a disciple of Andrei Matveev (Kobylina). Even with 15 years of
Antropov studied painting with different masters, and in 1739 adopted a pupil in the office buildings, and in 1752 sent to Kiev for the execution of paintings in the recovering, . Project Count Rastrelli, . Church of St. Andrew, . both the image for the iconostasis, . so the dome and the walls were written by himself without any help,
. Having time to finish the job in four years (1752 - 1756), as.
Antropov came from Kiev to Moscow and executed in the month 2 in the ceiling Golovinsky palace where she lived empress. These works, he has made a reputation as a skilled master in painting. The portraits Alexei Petrovich
Antropov followed the manner of Rotary. Portrait visited Petersburg Georgian king Teimuraz Nikolayevich, very well written, was the artist a good reputation in St. Petersburg, where he was quite willing to go with a orders the Petro know. Earned notoriety
Antropov Shuvalov was invited to Moscow to serve in the university, which was assumed at first to establish and the Academy of Fine Arts, but since it did not take place, on the recommendation Shuvalov A. P.
Antropov has been determined (1761) to the Synod painter, the duty which lay observation copyists icons, with a salary of 600 rubles a year, for the time a very large. By the coronation of Catherine II A. Among other painters sent to Moscow to help Jean Develi in writing episodes of Coronation. Then he painted a portrait of the Empress in a white dress at full length, with the regalia, in purple and the crown. Original preserved in the Synod in the works including 8 A. P.
Antropov, who until his death he taught students and wrote the image for the offerings to the Empress and portraits.
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Biographies
- Curriculum Vitae of A. P. Antropov, his relatives and namesake on the site "Russian Biographical Dictionary".
