Works by the artist Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753-1824) (19 works)

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F. Ya. Alekseev is the first master of urban landscape in Russian painting.
In 1766-73. studied at the Academy of Arts, first in the class of “painting flowers and fruits”, then in landscape painting. In 1773, he received a gold medal for a programmatic landscape and was sent to Venice for three years to paint theatrical scenery, although this did not suit his inclinations.
In Venice, Alekseev studies its famous landscape painters A. Canale, F. Guardi, and is interested in the views and fantastic engravings of D. B. Piranesi, who lived in Rome.