Anton Losenko

Anton Losenko

Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Cyrillic "Антон Павлович Лосенко") (OldStyleDate|10 August|1737|30 July - OldStyleDate|4 December |1773|23 November) was a Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits.

Anton was born to a family of a Ukrainian cossack. Soon he became an orphan and at the age of seven was sent to a Court Choir in Saint Petersburg. In 1753 as he had lost his voice but had shown talents to the painting he was sent for apprenticeship to the artist Ivan Argunov. In 1758 after five and a half years of apprenticeship he was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Among the paintings created there were the .

In 1760 the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under French neoclassical painter Jean Restout. There he painted a large paintings.

In 1769 Losenko returned to Saint-Petersburg. He got an offer to present a historical painting for receiving a membership to the Imperial Academy of Arts. He painted history. The painting not only brought him the title of the Academician but also the professorship position to the Imperial Academy of Art (since 1770 he was an adjunct-professor, since 1772 he was a full professor and the director of the Academy). At this position Losenko wrote a text book called "Short Explanation of the Human Proportions" that served a few generations of Russian painters. He worked as the Director of the Academy until his death in 1773. He died in poverty.

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