Anton Losenko

Anton Losenko
Born	Anton Pavlovich Losenko Антон Павлович Лосенко 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1737 Hlukhiv, Cossack Hetmanate, Tsardom of Russia
Died	4 December [O.S. 23 November] 1773 (aged 36) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Nationality	Ukrainian
Known for	Historical subjects and portraits
Movement	Neoclassicism

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

Anton Losenko was born to the family of a Ukrainian cossack in Hlukhiv, in the region of Chernihivshchyna (now in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). He became an orphan and at the age of seven was sent to a Court Choir in Saint Petersburg. In 1753, as he had lost his voice but had shown talent for painting, he was sent for apprenticeship to the artist Ivan Argunov. After five and a half years of apprenticeship, he was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1759. Among the paintings he created there was the Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov (1760) and the Portrait of Alexander Sumarokov (1760).

In 1760, the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under the French neoclassical painter Jean II Restout. There he painted a large painting based on the New Testament story of the miraculous catch of fish. In 1766-1769 Losenko worked in Rome, studying Italian art, especially the paintings of Raphael. There he created his two paintings of Kain and Abel.

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