Mina Kolokolnikov

Portrait of Prince I. Meschersky by Mina Kolokolnikov, 1756

Mina Lukich Kolokolnikov (Russian: Мина Лукич Колокольников; 1708?-1775?) was a Russian painter and teacher.

Biography[]

Kolokolnikov was born in the village of Kravotyn in Tver gubernia. He was a serf of the Pafnutievo-Borovsky Monastery, and learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin and Louis Caravaque; he also studied icon painting with .

He is known to have assisted in the decoration of the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, and to have lived for a time in St. Petersburg, where one of his pupils was . One of his portraits is in the Tver Regional Picture Gallery. He worked in the studio of Alexei Antropov; consequently, it is often difficult to tell Kolokolnikov's works from Antropov's, as both have very similar technique.

Kolokolnikov's brothers and were also painters.

References[]

Yamshchikov, S.V. (1976). Русский портрет XVIII—XIX веков в музеях РСФСР (Russkii portret XVIII—XIX vekov v muzeiah RSFSR) [Russian portrait of the 18th–19th centuries in the RSFSR museums] (in Russian). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo (Изобразительное искусство). pp. 1–248.

T. Boytsova The place of inspiration (in Russian)
Buildings in Saint Petersburg he decorated (in Russian)
Biography (in Russian)

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