Goravsky Apollinary Gilyarievich

January 23, 1833 (estate Uborki Minsk province) - March 28, 1900 (estate Kirillovich St. Petersburg Province)

Painter, graphic artist

from noble families. Brother artists GG and IG Goravsky. He was educated at the Alexander Cadet Corps in the Brest-Litovsk (1843 or 1845-1850), where he received initial artistic training under the guidance of architect NL Benois. Enjoy the protection of the Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Emperor Alexander II), with the assistance of which was transferred volnoslushayuschim student at IAH (1850-1854) with the appointment of scholarship. Engaged in a class of figures from FA Bruni and landscape class in MN Vorobyov. In 1852, for the landscape "Swamp" received a large silver medal, in 1853 for the landscape "Rucheyskoe Lake" - a small gold medal. In 1854 he was awarded a large gold medal for the painting "View of the estate of Count Kushelev-Bezborodko" Krasnopoltsy "Kholmsk district of Pskov Province, released from the Academy with the rank of class artist of degree 1 and the right to a pensioner's trip abroad.

In 1858-1860 - retired IAH; studied with A. Achenbach in Düsseldorf and in A. Kalam in Geneva. For a time he worked in Paris and Rome. In 1861, for completed during pensionerstva painting "the old woman praying" (1857), "Type in the vicinity Chamoun", "type between Genoa and Nice" was awarded the title of academician.

lived in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg and Mogilev provinces. He worked as a landscape painter, portrait artist, animal painter. Served icons for churches. He turned to the technique of watercolor. Since mid-1860 until 1886 he taught painting and drawing in the Drawing School of the Society for the Promotion of Artists (Fine Arts). In the 1860's helped councils Pavel Tretyakov in the acquisition of paintings. In 1869-1872 he traveled to Russia in the means of IAH. In 1885-1888 he went to Siberia, where he worked on the icons for the churches of the gold mines.

participated in academic announcements (1852-1897, with interruptions), the World Exhibitions in Paris (1867 and 1878), Vienna (1873), the international exhibitions in London (1872), Philadelphia (1876), the All-Russia exhibitions in Moscow (1882, Art and Industry) and Nizhny Novgorod (1896, Industry and Agriculture). Member of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers (from 1869) and the Society for the Promotion of artists (from 1878).

retrospective exhibition of the artist, dedicated to 150 anniversary of his birth, was held in 1983 in Gomel, Mogilev and Minsk.

Goravsky works are in many museum collections, among them - the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, National Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk and others.