Ivan Nikitich Nikitin - Works

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The early portraits by Nikitin had a strong influence of the traditional 17th century parsuna style: no perspective, rigid local colors, dark backgrounds. The later portraits are typical Baroque paintings. Most art historians consider the Nikitin's best portraits to be Chancellor G. I. Golovkin and A Malorossian Hetman. There are problems with attributing of the subject of the portrait, with different historians arguing that he is Ivan Mazepa or Ivan Skoropadsky or Kazimir Ian Sapega, or Pavlo Polubotok, but they all are equal in emphasising the psychological depth of the portrait.

Besides portraits, Ivan Nikitin is also considered to be the first notable Russian battle painter due to his paintings of the Battle of Poltava and Battle of Kulikovo.

  • Princess Elizabeth, 1712–1713

  • Tsarina Praskovia Ioanovna, 1714

  • Peter the Great, 1715–1716

  • Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna, before 1716

  • Tsarina Natalia Alekseyevna 1716

  • Catherine I of Russia, 1717

  • Peter the Great, 1717

  • Maria Cantemir

  • Chancelor G. I. Golovkin 1720s

  • Peter the Great on the deathbed 1725

  • Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov 1726

  • Tsarina Praskovia Saltykova

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