Emmanuil Aleksandrovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (Russian: Эммануи́л Алекса́ндрович Дми́триев-Мамо́нов; 19 January 1824 in

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– 30 December 1883 in

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) was a Russian portrait painter and graphic artist. He also worked as a book designer and caricaturist and was a respected art historian who supported the Slavophile movement.

Biography

His father,

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, was an army officer and battle painter who, in 1820, was one of the founders of the

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. In 1840, he entered the law faculty at

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, alternating classes there with studies at the

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. While there, he also became acquainted with the circle of slavophiles who met at the home of Avdotya Yelagina and created portrait sketches of them.Biographical notes
@ Лаборатория Фантастики In the 1850s, he became a full-time student at the

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and, upon graduating, set himself up as a professional portrait painter and soon became very popular among the aristocracy. Among those he portrayed were

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, Pyotr Kireevsky,

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and

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, who became a close friend. During these years, he also published his first works on art history, including a controversial essay that was critical of the

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. In 1858, the Academy officially awarded him the title of "Portrait Artist". That same year, he was one of the forty-eight signatories to a letter of protest against anti-Semitic remarks made by Vladimir Zotov and in the magazine ' (Illustration). Shamill

In 1860, he received a stipend from the Academy that allowed him to study abroad. He visited Paris and Dresden, then settled in Italy, but never lost contact with his friends in Russia. His first disagreement with his fellow Slavophiles came in 1863, when he took issue with their criticism of the

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and called on the Tsar to give Poland its freedom. By the early 1870s, he had completely abandoned

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. In Rome, he also associated with a circle of Russian artists that included

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and

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and became acquainted with

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, who introduced him to

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. In 1874, he returned to Russia. After spending some time in

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, he settled in Saint Petersburg in 1879. He died, following a series of illnesses, in 1883.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dmitriev-Mamonov, Emmanuil 1824 births 1883 deaths Painters from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Slavophiles 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian portrait painters Russian art historians 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni