Yakov
Fedoseevich Yanenko

Italia • 1800−1852

Biography and information

Son of I. F. Yanenko, admitted to the Academy of Arts in 1809 and was it a student A. Warnecke . He graduated from the course of this institution in 1821 with the title of the artist XIV class and soon after received the title assigned to the Academy, which is recognized in 1825 for a portrait of Professor N. Utkina (located in the hall of the Council of the Academy). Then went to Italy and living in Rome, became a friend and patron of all who came there by Russian artists, which encouraged and supported their advice and often rescued from poverty. Wrote image, portraits and copies of paintings by famous masters.