Pyotr Semyonovich Drozhdin (Russian: Пётр Семёнович Дрождин; 1745 – 1805) was a Russian painter. He studied in St. Petersburg under Alexei Antropov and Dmitri Levitsky, and was granted the title of Academician in 1785.
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Gallery
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Peter the Great, 1795 (Russian Museum)
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Catherine the Great, 1796 (Tretyakov Gallery)
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Painter Aleksey Antropov with his son in front of the portrait of his wife Yelena Vasilyevna, 1776 (Russian Museum)
References
edit- Yamshchikov, S.V. (1976). Русский портрет XVIII—XIX веков в музеях РСФСР (Russkii portret XVIII—XIX vekov v muzeiah RSFSR) [Russian portrait of the 18th–19th centuries in the RSFSR museums] (in Russian). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo (Изобразительное искусство). pp. 1–248.