Rafail Levitsky

Rafail Levitsky
Ilya Repin, Rafail Levitsky, 1878, oil on canvas; Ateneum, Helsinki
Born
Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky

1847
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died1940(1940-00-00) (aged 92–93)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1877)
Known forPainting, photographer
MovementPeredvizhniki

Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky (Russian: Рафаи́л Сергее́вич Леви́цкий; c. 1840–1847 — c. 1937–1940) was a Russian painter in the Realist style, active during Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II's reigns. The son to pioneering portrait photographer Sergey Levitsky, he was a second-rate master most remembered as friend to contemporaneous artists Ilya Repin and Vasily Polenov.

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