KAMEZHENKOV Ermolai Dementevich

KAMEZHENKOV Ermolai Dementevich
(1760-1818)


Portrait of an unknown Guards staff officer with the Order of St. George 4-th degree. 1790s

Portrait of a Man in a purple robe. 1790


Portrait of a young lady (EN Likhachova). 1790


Portrait of the artist's daughter with a babysitter

Fate, of course, to the talented European artists Ermolai Dementevich Kamezhenkova full of interesting twists and facts (in accordance with the few details of his life). It is known that he was a serf Tver bishop's house, he studied icon-painting skills from D. Kryzhova (1772-1777). Further demonstrate the ability of the boy was sent to St. Petersburg, where he continued his studies at the school GI Kozlov, in which a young Kamezhenkov stayed for about three years. It works somehow met Catherine II, who on behalf of which the artist has made a number of copies of paintings from the Hermitage collection. Apparently made empress liked, because in 1785 she released her decree on relieving ED Kamezhenkova from serfdom. By this time the name of the artist was well known in St. Petersburg - he performed qualitative portraits, which felt some impact DG Levitsky.

ED Kamezhenkov been in military service (1791-1793), lived in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kashin in recent years and in the village Zabelina Tver province. Painted many portraits, working under orders. Academy of Arts appreciate the talent and skill of the painter: in 1787 for "Portrait of a Young Man" ED Kamezhenkov received the title of "appointed" in academics, in 1794 he received the title of academician of the "Portrait of honorable free partakers of the Academy of Arts I.-F. Grotto ". Works by the painter are stored in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, Art Gallery of Tver. As befits academician, ED Kamezhenkov had pupils, some of them became famous painters.