Apollon Mokritsky

Apollon Nikolayevich Mokritsky (, Apollon Mokrytskyi; , Apollon Mokritsky, August 1810 – 1870) was a Ukrainian painter of the Biedermeier period of Realist art. From 1849, he was a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Biography Mokritsky was born in August 1810, in Pyriatyn, Poltava Governorate, modern day Ukraine. His early art education was completed at the Nizhyn Lyceum of Prince Bezborodko, under the supervision of Kapiton Pavlov. After this, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art between 1830 and 1839, under Alexey Venetsianov and later with Karl Briullov. A year after completing his studies, he worked in Ukraine and visited Italy.

Around 1850, he was appointed "an academician of painting" at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

He preferred to work in portraiture, representing "the Biedermeier school of uncontrolled Realist art which exhibited romantic overtones".