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Dmitry Levitsky was one of the most important and versatile artists of the eighteenth century. His brilliant, refined portraits most fully reflected the philosophical and aesthetic conceptions of the second half of the century, and the age's belief in the power of a reason and the integrity and nobility of human nature. Levitsky came of old Ukrainian stock and was born in Kiev. His father Grigory Levitsky was a hereditary priest who did amateur painting and etching, and it was he who taught his son the first skills of painting. An important role in the boy's development was the arrival in Kiev in 1752 of the well-known St. Petersburg artist A. Antropov to decorate the St. Andrew Cathedral. The Levitskys, father and son, got to known Antropov, and it was possible that they took part in the decoration of the cathedral, since Antropov was empowered to take on local masters as assistants.Dmitry Levitsky died in 1822 in St. Petersburg and is buried in the Smolensk Cemetery.