Portrait of the artist a. P. Anthropova with his son in front of his wife’s portrait

The artist is Drozhdin

Aleksey Petrovich Antropov (1716, St. Petersburg-1795, St. Petersburg)-painter, portrait painter. Studied in St. Petersburg at a. M. Matveeva and l. Caravakka (from 1732). From 1739 he worked in "picturesque team" Chancellery from buildings at and. I AM. Vishnyakov. In the late 1750s I took lessons from p. Rotari. He participated in the implementation of decorative murals of palaces in St. Petersburg and its suburbs (1744–1750), in Moscow, Andreevsky Cathedral in Kyiv (1752–1755). From 1761 to the end of life – the main artist of the Synod (overseer for painters and icon painters). Had a private school of painting in which. G. Levitsky.