Newspaper Readers In Naples
''Newspaper Readers in Naples'' is a painting by the Russian artist Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836), painted in 1831. It belongs to the Tretyakov Gallery, State Tretyakov Gallery (inv. 5100). The size of the painting is 64.5 × 78.3 cm.Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. М.: СканРус, 2005. V. 3: Живопись первой половины XIX века. p. 196. ISBN 5-93221-081-8. It is titled ''Readers of Newspaper'',Адам Мицкевич в русской печати. 1825—1955. М.—Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. p. 439. ''Newspaper Readers in Italy'',Письма художников Павлу Михайловичу Третьякову: 1856—1869 / Н. Г. Галкина, М. Н. Григорьева. М.: Искусство, 1960. p. 310.
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Orest Kiprensky
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (; – ) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me." Biography Orest was born in the village of Nezhnovo in the Saint Petersburg Governorate on . He was an illegitimate son of a landowner Alexey Dyakonov, hence his name, derived from ''Kypris'', one of the Greek names for the goddess of love. He was raised in the family of Adam Shvalbe, a serf. Although Kiprensky was born a serf, he was released from the serfdom upon his birth and later his father helped him to enter a boarding school at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1788 (when Orest was only six years old). He studied at the boarding school and the academy itself until 1803. He lived at the academy for three more years as a pensioner to fulfill requirements necessary to win the ''Major Gold medal''. Winning the firs ...
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