Who painted “Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.”?

“Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.” was painted by Vasily Andreevich Tropinin in 1827. Where to see it: National Pushkin Museum.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (30 March 1776 – 16 May 1857) was a Russian Romantic painter, active in Moscow during Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I's reigns. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was more than forty years old. Wikipedia

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“Lace-maker”, 1823
“Lady from Podolia”, 1821
“Self-Portrait in Front of the Kremlin”, 1846
“Girl with a Doll”, 1841
“The coachman leaning on a whip handle”, 1820
“Woman at the window”, 1841
“Portrait of Sergei Nechaev D”
“A girl with a pot of roses”, 1850