{{short description|Russian painter}}
{{Infobox artist | native_name = {{nobold|Степан Александровский}} | image = Ivan Kramskoi, Stepan Alexandrovsky, 1870s, Russian Museum Ж-2710.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Ivan Kramskoi, ''Stepan Alexandrovsky'', 1870s, oil on canvas; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg<ref>Catalogued in {{Cite book |last=Goldstein |first=Sofya N. |title=Иван Николаевич Крамской |date=1965 |publisher=Iskusstvo |location=Moscow |page=362|language=ru |oclc=7262671}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1843|1|6}} | birth_place = Riga | death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|2|14|1843|1|6}} | death_place = St. Petersburg | resting_place = Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, St. Petersburg | known_for = Watercolour painting | alma_mater = {{Imperial Academy of Arts|Alumni|1869}} | elected = {{Imperial Academy of Arts|Member|1874}} | awards = | relatives = {{ill|Ivan Alexandrovsky|ru|Александровский, Иван Фёдорович}} (elder brother) }} '''Stepan Fyodorovich Alexandrovsky''' ({{langx|ru|Степа́н Фёдорович Александро́вский}}; {{OldStyleDateDY|6 January|1843|25 December 1842}} – {{OldStyleDateDY|14 February|1906|1 February}}) was a Russian painter in the Academical style, best known for his watercolour portraits.
==Biography== He attended a classical grammar school and was originally planning for a career in medicine, but soon found himself attracted to art. In pursuit of that, he moved to St. Petersburg and began auditing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts. One of his portraits was awarded a small silver medal in 1861.<ref name="E">{{ВТ-ЭСБЕ|Александровский, Степан Федорович}}</ref>
He was a regular participant in the Academy's exhibitions and was named an "Artist" in 1864. Later he became a "First-Class Artist" (1869). He was named an "Academician" in 1874 for his portrait of War Minister, Dmitry Milyutin.<ref name="E" /> By 1884, he was a "Free Artist" and honorary member of the Academy.
He was one of the founding members of the {{ill|Society of Russian Watercolorists|ru|Общество русских акварелистов}}. Among his best-known works are a series of portrait albums: thirty of Central Asian dignitaries who came to Moscow for the coronation of Alexander III (1884); forty-five of the Knights of various military orders (1886); and members of an embassy from 'Abd al-Ahad Khan, the Emir of Bukhara (1889).<ref name="E" />
He also provided illustrations for several periodicals and participated in exhibitions held by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts.<ref>[http://www.rusartnet.com/biographies/russian-artists/19th-century/late-19th-century/portraitist/stepan-alexandrovsky Biographical notes] @ RusArtNet.</ref>
==Works== <gallery heights="200px" widths="250px"> File:AleksandrBaryatinsky 1870.jpg|''Prince Aleksandr Baryatinsky'', 1870s; Historical Museum, Moscow File:Stepan Alexandrovsky after Andrey Denyer, Fyodor Tyutchev, 1876, Tretyakov Gallery 686.jpg|''Fyodor Tyutchev'', 1876, after the 1864 photograph by Andrey Denyer; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, commissioned by Pavel Tretyakov<ref>{{cite book |title=Живопись второй половины XIX века. А — М |date=2001 |publisher=Krasnaya Ploschad |isbn=5-900743-56-X |editor-last=Tretyakov Gallery |editor-first=Moscow |editor-link=Tretyakov Gallery |series=Государственная Третьяковская галерея : каталог собрания. Живопись XVIII–XX веков |location=Moscow |at=p. 50, cat. no. 45 |language=ru |type=collection catalog |oclc=773947243}}</ref> File:Luigi Premazzi.jpg|''Luigi Premazzi'', 1882; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg<ref>Notably reproduced in {{Cite book |last=Bardovskaya |first=Larisa V. |title=Луиджи Премацци. Акварели и рисунки |date=1996 |publisher=Slaviya |isbn=5-88654-034-2 |editor-last=Hermitage Museum |editor-first=Saint Petersburg |editor-link=Hermitage Museum |location=Saint Petersburg|at=p. 16, ill. p. 6 |language=ru |trans-title=Luigi Premazzi: Watercolours and Drawings |type=artbook / exhibition catalogue |display-authors=etal}}</ref> File:Alexandrovsky-Girl.jpg|''The Milkmaid'', 1892; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, donated in 1898 by Princess Maria Tenisheva<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Russian Museum|editor-first=St. Petersburg|editor-link=Russian Museum|date=2008|title=Собрание княгини М. К. Тенишевой|type=collection artbook / catalog|language=ru|location=St. Petersburg|publisher=Palace Editions|at=pp. 57, 94; cat. no. 2, ill. 40|isbn=978-5-93332-267-2}}</ref> </gallery>
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== Further reading == * {{Cite book |last=Belyayev |first=Nikolai S. |url=http://www.rasl.ru/e_editions/volnyye_obshchniki_2018_full.pdf |title=Почетные вольные общники Императорской Академии художеств |date=2018 |publisher=Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences |isbn=978-5-336-00234-8 |location=St. Petersburg |pages=10–12 |language=ru |oclc=1083287293}} * {{Cite magazine |last=Breshko-Breshkovsky |first=Nikolay N. |author-link=Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky |date=January 16, 1904 |title=У академика С. Ф. Александровского |url=https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000070240/view/?#page=14 |access-date=August 21, 2024 |magazine=Ogonyok |publisher=Birzhevyie Vedomosti |location=St. Petersburg |page=6 |language=ru |issue=1}} * {{Cite book |last=Bulgakov |first=Fyodor I. |author-link=:ru:Булгаков, Фёдор Ильич |title=Наши художники |date=1889 |publisher=Suvorin Typography |volume=1 |location=St. Petersburg |page=11 |language=ru |chapter=Александровский, Степан Федорович |oclc=38661216 |chapter-url=https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01004964344?page=17}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Александровский, Степан Федорович |encyclopedia=Словарь русских художников |publisher=Stasyulevich Typography|location=St. Petersburg |url=https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01003934390?page=56 |last=Sobko |first=Nikolai P. |date=1893 |author-link=:ru:Собко, Николай Петрович |volume=1 |at=cols. 80–83 |language=ru |oclc=889716402}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Александровский, Степан Фёдорович |encyclopedia=Художники народов СССР |publisher=Iskusstvo |location=Moscow |date=1970 |editor-last=Voltsenburg |editor-first=Oskar E. |editor-link=:ru:Вольценбург, Оскар Эдуардович|display-editors=etal |volume=1 |page=95 |language=ru}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline|Stepan Alexandrovsky}} * [https://rah.ru/the_academy_today/the_members_of_the_academie/member.php?ID=52476 Stepan Alexandrovsky] at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website {{in lang|ru}}
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