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Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky)
(Russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич
Левицкий, 1735-1822) was a Russia|Russian
portrait painter. 

==Biography==

Dmitry was born in Kiev, currently Ukraine in a
family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky.
His father was his first art teacher. Later be
became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to
Kiev to paint the Kiev Cathedral of St. Andrew.

In 1770, Levitzky became famous as a portrait
painter after the exhibition of six of his
portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.
Petersburg. For the portrait of (1769) he was
elected an academician and appointed the Professor
of the portrait painting class at the Academy of
Arts. He remained on this position until 1788.

In 1772-1776 Levitzky worked on a series of
portraits of the pupils of the privileged women
establishment Smolny|Smolny Institute for Young
Ladies in St. Petersburg commissioned by Catherine
II of Russia|Catherine II.  The girls are depicted
performing dances, music, plays.

Though Levitzky had many commissions, they were,
in most cases, poorly paid, and the painter died
in poverty in 1822. 

==Works ==


==External links==
Commonscat|Dmitry Levitzky
*http://www.abcgallery.com/L/levitzky/levitzky.htm
l Levitsky in Olga's gallery 
*http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/l/l-7.htm#levitsky
Levitsky at CGFA gallery