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Lot Essay
"Take your swift pencil,
Draw at night, Orlovskii and mock!"
A. Pushkin (Ruslan and Ludmila)
Battle scene painter, engraver, lithographer and caricaturist, Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii was born in Warsaw in 1777. His talents were discovered by Prince Adam Szartorysky, who sent him to the Warsaw Art school to be trained under the painter J.P. Norblin de la Gourdaine. As a young man he travelled extensively and took part in the Polish liberation movement and uprising of 1794. He moved to Russia in 1802 where he settled in St. Petersburg as a protegé of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich and served as court artist. In 1809 he received the title of Academician of Battle Painting which led to his appointment to the General Staff.
Orlovskii was one of the first artists to produce lithographs in Russia depicting scenes from everyday life and the various types of nomadic tribesmen that he encountered during his extensive travels through Russia. He died in St. Petersburg in 1832.
Draw at night, Orlovskii and mock!"
A. Pushkin (Ruslan and Ludmila)
Battle scene painter, engraver, lithographer and caricaturist, Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii was born in Warsaw in 1777. His talents were discovered by Prince Adam Szartorysky, who sent him to the Warsaw Art school to be trained under the painter J.P. Norblin de la Gourdaine. As a young man he travelled extensively and took part in the Polish liberation movement and uprising of 1794. He moved to Russia in 1802 where he settled in St. Petersburg as a protegé of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich and served as court artist. In 1809 he received the title of Academician of Battle Painting which led to his appointment to the General Staff.
Orlovskii was one of the first artists to produce lithographs in Russia depicting scenes from everyday life and the various types of nomadic tribesmen that he encountered during his extensive travels through Russia. He died in St. Petersburg in 1832.