Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky (1847 - 1940)

Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky

Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky (Russian: Рафаи́л Сергее́вич Леви́цкий) was a Russian artist of the last third of the 19th century to the first third of the 20th century. He is known as a painter-painter, photographer and teacher, professor of porcelain painting.

Rafail Levitsky painted genre paintings, portraits, landscapes, interiors, battle scenes from life. He is also considered the first artist in history to become a photographer. His many famous photographic portraits replaced models for painters, lithographers, illustrators, and engravers, as in the case of the portrait of Emperor Alexander III, which was reproduced on Russian banknotes.