Mikhail
Matveyevich Ivanov

Master species landscapes and sea battles, Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov (1748-1823) about a year was located in Kherson, arriving here in the second half of the spring of 1783

In 1762 was admitted to the number of pupils of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Received in 1769, 2 silver medal and graduated from the course in 1770 with a small gold medal for the painting ""Olive tree with hanging valves, under which the military are having fun, the shepherds and shepherdesses"", was sent to foreign lands. Studied in Paris at the Le Prince and in Rome at F. Hackert. On his return to St. Petersburg in 1779 he received the title assigned to the Academy and soon after made a journey to Georgia and Armenia, for removing these types of countries. In 1780 he was invited kN. Potemkin in his army, received the rank of major and accompanied the field Marshal in his campaigns. At that time, he produced mostly watercolours and bistre, many of the Crimean and Danubian types and images of the wars with Turkey ("the"Storm of Ochakovo"", ""Peter the Great at the Prut river"" etc.). In 1785 he received the degree of academician. At the end of the Turkish war declared, in 1792, Keeper of collections of paintings in the Imperial Hermitage; later promoted to advisers of the Academy and joined the management of the classroom batalicheskih painting, and in 1804, on the death of Sam. Shchedrin , and the class of landscapes. Paintings Ivanov, painted in oil-colours, are extremely rare (one of them: ""milking the cow"" is in the Museum of the Academy of fine Arts); on the contrary, his watercolours and drawings, numerous (a large collection of them stored in the Imperial Hermitage). In General, his work shows the ability to choose a scenic point of rhenium, courage, and taste of execution; but their color is weak and the picture is not enough serviceable.