Among the portraitists of the 18th century, three are especially distinguished - Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov and Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky. Their paintings reflect all the outstanding figures of the 18th century, family dynasties and the imperial house, as well as many aristocrats whose names have not reached our time.
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov embodied in his art the ideal of a man of his era, which had developed among the Russian clerisy and attracted with its spiritual content. The viewer, standing in front of his portraits, involuntarily enters into emotional contact with those depicted on the canvas. This distinguishes Fyodor Rokotov from other portrait painters of the 18th century.
