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thumb|225px|Sarah Eleanore Fermor (c. 1749) '''Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov''' (Russian: '''Ива́н Я́ковлевич Вишняко́в'''; 1699, in Moscow – 1761, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter and muralist in the Rococo style.<ref name="AO">* [http://www.artonline.ru/encyclopedia/137 Обзор творчества Ивана Яковлевича Вишнякова] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503000523/http://www.artonline.ru/encyclopedia/137 |date=2014-05-03 }} (brief biography and artwork)</ref>
== Life and works == He was briefly apprenticed to be a varnisher, then was sent to the "Канцелярия от строений" (Chancellory of Buildings) in 1727, where he studied under Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter living in Russia, and Andrey Matveyev.<ref name="AO" /> He qualified as a master painter in 1739 and became head of the Chancellory after Matveyev's early death.
He painted murals in many of the palaces and churches of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, including the Summer Palace, the Anichkov Palace and the Winter Palace. He also did portraits and icons, restored paintings and appraised the works of foreign artists. His portraits were among the first to depart from the flat, static style favored at the Imperial Court.<ref name="AO" /> Among his best-known students were Alexei Antropov, Alexei Ivanovich Belsky and Ivan Firsov.
In 1740 he attained the rank of Court Counselor (a civil ranking equal to lieutenant-colonel) and in 1752 became a Collegiate Assessor.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}
== Gallery == <gallery class="center" widths="150" heights="150"> File:Anna Leopoldovna in orange dress by I.Vishnyakov (1740s, Russian museum).jpg|Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna (c. 1740) File:Portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna by Ivan Vishnyakov.jpg|Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (1743) File:Ivan Vishnyakov 08.jpg|Vasily Daragan (1745) File:Ivan Vishnyakov 05.jpg|Matvey Semyonovich Begichev (1757) </gallery>
== References == {{reflist}}
== Further reading == * Uspensky, А.: ''Словарь художников, в XVIII веке писавших в императорских дворцах'' (Dictionary of Artists in the 18th Century). (1913). * Lebedev, G.:''Русская живопись первой половины XVIII века'' (Russian Painting in the First Half of the 18th Century) (1938). * Ilina, Т. V.: ''Иван Яковлевич Вишняков: Жизнь и творчество'' (Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov: Life and Work) Искусство (1979)
== External links == {{commons category|Ivan Vishnyakov}} * [http://www.rusartnet.com/biographies/russian-artists/18th-century/rococo/ivan-vishnyakov RusArtNet: Brief biography] * [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/vishnyakov_ivan.html ArtCyclopedia: Works by Vishnyakov online] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150603153512/http://www.uer.varvar.ru/andrewskaya-cerkovy.htm#1 Иконы письма Ивана Яковлевича Вишнякова в иконостасе Андреевской церкви в Киеве. 1751-1752] Icons by Vishnyakov
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