Ivan Nikitich Nikitin

Place: Moscow

Born: 1690

Death: 1742

Biography:

Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (Russian: Иван Никитич Никитин c. 1690–1741) was a Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings. Ivan Nikitin was born in Moscow to a family of an Orthodox priest. He received his first artistic lessons from a Dutch artist Schwonbek at the engraving shop of the Kremlin Armoury. In 1711 the Armory together with ...