Anton Losenko

Anton Losenko
Born
Антон Павлович Лосенко

10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1737
Died4 December [O.S. 23 November] 1773 (aged 36)
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1770)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts
Known forHistorical subjects and portraits
MovementNeoclassicism
Patron(s)Dmitry Golitsyn

Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Russian: Антон Павлович Лосенко; 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1737 – 4 December [O.S. 23 November] 1773) was a Russian neoclassical painter and academician who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. He was one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting.