Dmitry Grigorievich Levitzky is, without doubt, the leading Russian painter of the latter half of the 18th Century, as well as the first Russian painter to paint at the level of contemporary Western European masters. Levitzky specialized in the art of the portrait, which was in great demand in Russian high society at the time, as it sought to emulate its counterparts in the rest of Europe.
1769. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1770. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1772. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1773. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1773. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1775. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1776. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1776. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1775. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1773. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1770s. Oil on canvas. The State Literature Museum, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1770s. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1774. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1778. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1779. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1780. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1780s. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1781. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
1781. Oil on canvas. The State Art Museum, Minsk, Belarus.
1781. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
Russian Painters. St. Petersburg. 1998. (in Russian)
The Art and Architecture of Russia (Pelican History Art) by George Heard Hamilton. Yale Univ Pr, 1992.
A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970 by John Milner. Antique Collectors' Club, 1993.