Vasily Andreevich Tropinin is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Vasily Andreevich Tropinin as Russian portrait painter (1780-1857).
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was born at Karpovo in 1776. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is romanticism.
Among his best-known works are Lace-maker and Portrait of A. V. Tropinin. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin died in 1857, aged 81. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lace-maker
- Notable work: Portrait of A. V. Tropinin
- Movement: Romanticism
