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eng Automatic Translation

Ivan Khrutsky

1810 – 1885

Painter, academician.

His heritage consists of works of different genres: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, interiors. He became the founder of the school of still life, developing the genre in the tradition of academicism. The contemporaries compared the subtlety and thoroughness of his painting with the art of the famous Dutch masters.

The artist's still lifes are characterized by the realistic depiction of objects and their texture.

Selected events

Selected artworks

Associated institutions

Associated Documents

Selected dates:

January 27, 1810

Born in the town of Ulla (now Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region, Russian Empire, today the Republic of Belarus) in the family of a Greek Catholic priest, nobleman Tomasz Khrutsky.

1827–1829

Moved to St. Petersburg to study painting. His first teacher was the English portrait painter George Doe.

1830

Entered the Imperial Academy of Arts.

At the request of Jozef Oleshkevich, an artist of Polish origin, an academician, he received permission to copy works from the Hermitage collection.

1836

He received a large silver medal for the still life "Flowers and Fruits" and the title of "free artist".

1838

Awarded a small gold medal of the Academy of Arts.

1839

He was awarded the title of Academician of the Academy of Arts. Left St. Petersburg.

1840s

He worked a lot in the portrait genre: 21 portraits were painted within three years.

1844

He acquired the Zakharnichi estate in the Polotsk district (not far from modern Polotsk), where he built a house according to his own design and laid out a garden. He lived there until the end of his life.

1846-1855

Collaborated with the Lithuanian Metropolitan Joseph Semashko. For ten years, Khrutsky carried out orders from the hierarch of the church.

1847–1851

He worked in the genre of church painting. He painted icons for the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Kovno (now Kaunas), the cave church of the Three Martyrs in Vilna and the Church of St. Joseph the Betrothed in Trinopol.

January 13, 1885

He died at the Zakharnichi estate.