Nikanor
Leontievich Tyutryumov

Painter, portraitist, was educated in the former noble regiment, and, being released from his artillery, in 1840, was transferred in 1846 to St. Petersburg, where he was assigned to a noble regiment for the duties of the company commander and the officer of the artillery teacher of drawing, and then drawing.

In a given year, he enrolled as a student of the Imperial Academy of Arts, where his main mentor was Professor P. basin. However, his direction had the effect not so much the artist, how much of S. K. Zaryanko , who was then also a noble regiment.

In 1850 Tyutryumov, with the portrait, to write to them himself, received from the Academy silver medal, and a month after that, for the painting "Greek", and a large silver medal. Since that time there hasn't been a year without him was not the academic exhibition with several of his works, which soon made his reputation as a great portraitist, able to capture the similarity of the faces and perfectly portray the accessories, especially the fur and gold.

In 1853, with the portraits of his Uncle , General, your own and P. basin, he was elevated to the rank of academician. Not having a solid technical training, Tyutryumov wrote very slowly, and for the execution of the portrait was in need of a huge number of sessions than bothered posing and discourage yourself customers; the effort to write perhaps hasty fascinated him in a rut, more and more have affected the location to him of the public. The loss of a good portrait practice forced him to turn to the writing of images and iconography as much to the image of women's heads and figures of naked beauties. Two very mediocre paintings of this kind, "Rest Bacchae" and "the Nymph before swimming", the Academy, in 1864, graciously elevated him to the honorary obschniki free. Meanwhile, the service most high the founded lasted from 1851 to 1866, when he was dismissed. In the last years of his life, from 1868, he served in the Directorate of Imperial theatres assistant head of props and dressing part.