What is Alexey Tyranov?
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Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (
Russian: ;
1801-
59) was a
Russian painter. Early in his career he painted
icons with his brother; he then traveled to
St. Petersburg to study at the Academy, where he took lessons with Alexei Venetsianov. From
1836 he was a pupil of
Karl Bryullov. Tyranov chiefly painted
portraits and
genre scenes; he exhibited at a number of venues in the city throughout the
1830s and
40s.
Image:Pletnev.jpg|Pyotr Pletnev, 1836
Image:Aivazovsky portrait by Tyranov.jpg|Ivan Aivazovsky, 1841
Reference
Russian Portrait [sic] of the 18th and 19th century (exhibition catalog).
Moscow,
1976.
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