MATVEEV Andrew Matveyevich

(1701 - 1739). In 1716, Mr.. posted by Peter the Great in Holland, where he studied painting at the Karel de Mora and Shora, then was a pupil Antwerp Academy. In 1727, Mr.. returned to. Of the surviving works of his are known: self-portrait with his wife (in the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts) and portraits of the Prince and Princess Golitsyn (in the suburban estate of Peter "). He also attributed to "The Battle of Kulikov field (in the museum of Alexander III) and an allegorical painting in the collection of Count Stroganoff, in Petrograd. Image Matveeva in Peter and Paul Cathedral in the Simeon church in Petrograd, entirely rewritten. - Wed. P.N. Petrov, "Russian painters retired Peter the Great" (Journal of Fine Arts, 1883).