LEBEDEV Mikhail Ivanovich

November 4, 1811 (Dorpat) - between 18 and 25 July 1837 (Naples)

Painter, graphic artist

born in the family of a serf, in 1826 recorded in the "philistine salary. He studied at the school at the University of Dorpat (1827-1829), where he received first skills in drawing. At the request of trustee of the University of Dorpat Count PA Palena determined to continue their education in the IAH in the means of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty.

studied at IAH (1829-1833) in the class of landscape painting in MN Vorobyov. Advice of VE Raeva. In 1832, "for landscape composition" was awarded a small silver medal in the autumn of that year for "View of the Petrovsky Island in St. Petersburg" - a large silver medal. In 1833 his picture "view in the vicinity of Lake Ladoga" received a gold medal and a certificate for the title of class artist 1-st degree.

By definition of the IAH "to respect the weakness of the physical forces that require staying in the best climate, and in the attention to excellence in landscape painting in the spring of 1834 sent to the pensioner's trip to Italy. On the way visit Dorpat, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna. He worked in Rome and its surroundings - Albano, Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo. Patronized K. Briullov. In the spring of 1837 he lived in Naples, went to the island of Capri and Sorrento. He died during the cholera epidemic.

Lebedev belongs to the most important masters of landscape painting of the first half of the XIX century, in his works developed academic traditions. His early works are similar landscapes "venetsianovskoy school" ( "Vasilkovo. Property Inspector of the Academy of Arts AI Krutova", 1833). In the works of Italian period strove for accurate transmission of light and air and the appearance of a particular locality. Increased brightness of colors and contrasts of foreground and shadow-shrouded air, brightly sunlit details gives a romantic elation emotional structure of his paintings.

Lebedev works are in many museum collections, among them - the State Russian Museum and Research Museum of Russia Academy of Arts, State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin and others.