Only 6 years worked in Russia for favorite artist of the Viennese court and nobility – Johann Baptist Lampi.
He learned from the artist Unterberger in Salzburg, then in Verona, C. F. Lorenzo. From 1783 worked in Vienna.
From 1788 to 1790 he was invited to Poland, to king-patron Stanislaw August Poniatowski, where his work enjoyed such a resounding success that it came to the Potemkin. In 1790 he returned to Vienna. He was awarded the title of honorary citizen of this city
In 1790 he was invited to Iasi Potemkin, where he painted several portraits. After the death of Potemkin, was invited by Catherine II to St. Petersburg, where he worked from 1792 to 1797. In 1794 he was elected a free academician and member of the Academy of arts for "Portrait gr. A. I. Potemkin.
His authority in Russia was so great that the Director of the St. Petersburg Academy of arts, count V. P. Mussin-Pushkin, following the advice of lumpy, introduced a number of important changes in the education system.
Leaving from Petersburg, left his Studio to the beloved disciple, V. L. Borovikovsky.
Researchers call I. B. Lampi “a skilled and experienced painter”. He died in 1830. in Vienna.
He received his primary art education under the guidance of his father, Mathias Lampi, then perfected at Koenig and Unterberger in Salzburg, Lorenzo in Verona. At this time he wrote ceiling lamps, altar image for churches, historical paintings and portraits, in developing their talent hard work. His success was so rapid that the Verona Academy of arts elected him as a member when he was barely 25 years old. In 1783 he arrived in Vienna, where he soon became a favorite portraitist of the court and nobility, and performed, among other things, a large portrait of Emperor Joseph II (located in the Vienna Acad. arts) and two excellent portrait of the family gr. Potocki. In 1786 he was appointed Professor and member of the Board of the Vienna Academy. The following year, at the invitation of king Stanislaus Augustus, went to Warsaw. Here, they were filled with portraits of the Emperor and the many people of Polish and Lithuanian nobility. Prince Potemkin, who was then in Moldova, invited artist, in Iasi, where he painted portraits of Bezborodko, Princess Galitzine (niece of Potemkin, born Engelhardt), the Potemkin and the ruler of his office Popov. After the last Empress Catherine II invited him to St. Petersburg. His first work here was a portrait of the great monarch life-size and full growth. Excluding one-time reward of 12,000 rubles., Lampi got for him from the Empress annual maintenance in 7000 rubles. and 400 ducats, in reimbursement on arrival in St. Petersburg and the way back to Vienna. In Russia, Lampi spent six years (1792-98), using the favor of Catherine and her successor on the throne, portrayed all the ladies of the Royal family and many Russian dignitaries and courtiers (book. P. Zubov, C. A. I. Musin-Pushkin, A. B. Kurakin, I. Lampi Lazarev, gr. P. V. Zavadovskiy, N. Yusupov, C. Samoilov, P. I. Melissino, K. J. bühler, etc.) and had a significant impact on some Russian artists, especially in the D. Levitsky and V. Borovikovsky. In 1794, our Academy of arts recognized him as their honorary free member. Returning to Vienna, he continued to work tirelessly, was built, together with downward offspring in the noble rank and was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city. In 1822, retired, but still did not part with the brush, helping in the work of his eldest son. The skill to effectively put the nature and pricesit it, without prejudice to the similarity with reality, pleasant, harmonious, although somewhat conditional coloring, free admission letter, especially adept at playing draperies and other ADO — make up the dignity of portrait works by this artist, which, in General, can be considered one of the best masters among the portraitists of his time. As samples of his paintings, you can specify the portraits of Catherine II (the Winter Palace and the Mining Institute), Empress Maria Feodorovna (in Pavlovsk, the Palace), led. kN. Alexander and Constantine Pavlovich (in the Romanov gallery Hermitage) led. kN. Maria Pavlovna led. kN. Olga Pavlovna (in the Gatchina Palace), gr. A. I. Musin-Pushkin (in the Museum of the Academy of fine arts) and at some privately owned in St. Petersburg. and Moscow.
