Vladimir Borovikovsky

Vladimir Borovikovsky
Владимир Боровиковский
Portrait by Ivan Bugaevsky-Blagodarny (1824)
Born
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky

August 4 [O.S. July 24] 1757
Mirgorod, Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire
DiedApril 18 [O.S. April 6] 1825 (aged 67)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1795)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts
Known forPainting
MovementOrientalist

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (August 4 [O.S. July 24] 1757April 18 [O.S. April 6] 1825) was a Russian artist of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He served at the court of Catherine the Great and dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century.