TEETH Alexei Fyodorovich

1682 or 1683 (Moscow) - June 1, 1751 (Moscow)

Engraver

Son iconographer Evtihievicha Fyodor Zubov, the younger brother of the engraver Ivan Zubov. Studied icons in the Armory. In 1699 was given to study engraving by A. Shonebeku (Shhonebeku). He worked in the studio Engraving Armory Chamber. In 1711 moved to St. Petersburg. From 1711 to 1727 headed the engraving workshop at the St. Petersburg publishing house. In 1728-1729 he worked in the Engraving of the Academy of Sciences on piecework basis. In late 1729 he moved to Moscow, where he performed the jobs of individuals and the Synodal printing house. From 1744 served in the Manufacturing College by making stamps for stamped paper.

worked in the field of the original (that is, at its own pattern) prints of etchings, tool, black manners, has made his own machine for mezzotint. Engraved portraits, views, battle and allegorical images, fireworks, creating compositions on biblical subjects. The artistic heritage of the wizard, given the large size and the multiple works, is sufficiently large and is more than 100 works.

best works date from 1710 - 1720 mi years. These include: "Equestrian Portrait of Peter I» (1707-1721, jointly with P. Pikart), "the triumphal entry of Russian troops in Moscow after victories at Forest and at Poltava" (1710-1711), "Wedding of Peter I and Catherine "(1712)," Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg "(1714)," Batalha near Hango July 25, 1714 "(1715)," Panorama of St. Petersburg "(1716)," View of the Summer Gardens from the Neva "(1717 ), "Winter Palace of Peter I" (1716 - 1717), "marshal in St. Petersburg four Swedish frigates after the victory at Grengam September 8, 1720" (1720), "Battle of Grengam July 27, 1720" (1721) and others.

Zubov - a prominent Russian engraver of the first quarter of XVIII century. During this period engraving in Russia had become the leading place in the arts, performing an important function of state propaganda achievements. Zubov, one of the first depicted in his works, military successes and triumphal processions, as well as new capital - St. Petersburg. His art, as in the whole engraving Petrine era, are inherent in the solemnity, the monumental scale, representativeness, an abundance of symbols and allegories. For products characterized by free expressive touch, freshness, richness of tone, dynamic rhythm.

known later reprints from the master prints made with the already erased boards and characterized by inconsistency in the overall tone, the presence of random strokes (scratches), bad propechatkoy individual parts.

Zubov works are in major museum collections - the State Russian Museum, State Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin State Museum of History and others.