Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov was a Russia

Russia

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n painter

Painting

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. Early in his career he painted icon

Icon

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s with his brother; he then traveled to St. Petersburg to study at the Academy, where he took lessons with Alexey Venetsianov

Alexey Venetsianov

Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people.Alexey Venetsianov was born to a merchant family of Greek descent in Moscow. He entered state service in the early 19th century and moved to St. Petersburg, where he...

. From 1836 he was a pupil of Karl Bryullov. Tyranov chiefly painted portrait

Portrait

thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

s and genre scenes; he exhibited at a number of venues in the city throughout the 1830s and 40s.