Ivan Philippovich Tupylev (1758 - 1821)

Ivan Philippovich Tupylev

Ivan Philippovich Tupylev (Russian: Иван Филиппович Тупылев) was a Russian artist of the last quarter of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a master of historical and portrait genres.

Ivan Tupylev painted historical paintings, portraits of royalty and other nobles, as well as icons for churches. As a graphic artist, he illustrated the "Metamorphoses" by the ancient Roman poet Ovid and a book devoted to Palladianism - the architecture of early classicism - published in Russia.