UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

Pavlovich Karl Briullov, 1799-1852

Nationality: Russian
Date of Birth: 1799
Place of Birth: St Petersburg
Date of Death: 1852
Place of Death: Italy

Life:

A genre and history painter, he was educated at the St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1809-21). He studied in Italy from 1823, and painted there his best-known work, Last Day of Pompeii (1830-33). The Whistlers met him in Russia, and AMW referred to him when he was painting the murals of St Isaac's Cathedral in St Petersburg.

Bibliography:

Richard Hare, The Art and Artists of Russia, London, 1965, p. 182; p. 91. Rosa Newmarch, The Russian Arts, London, 1916; Susanne Massie, The Beauty of Old Russia, Land of the Firebird, London, 1980, p. 223.