Karl Bryullov (1799-1852) was a Russian painter and a drawing artist, a muralist and a watercolorist. He is the most famous representative of the artistic dynasty of the Bryullovs, one of the chief painters of late Russian classicism of the first half of the 19th century.
He was born in St. Petersburg on December 12 (23) of 1799. In 1809-1821, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The painter’s artworks are composed of contrasts of light and shadow; they are endowed with historical credibility, romantic spirit and distinguished with the assertion of sensual and plastic beauty of a human, dramatic tension of images, realistic tendencies and subtle psychological logic.
Karl Bryullov was the winner of honorable awards: Big Gold Medals for his paintings Three Angels Appearing to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre and The Last Day of Pompeii, and the Order of Saint Anna 3rd class; he was a member of the Milan and Parma Academies, the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome, as well as a professor of the St. Petersburg and Florence Academies of Arts.
The postage stamp provides painting by K. Bryullov Portrait of O.P. Ferzen (1835); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of the painter against the background of the studio.
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