Mikhail Shibanov

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Mikhail Shibanov was a Russian painter active during the 1780s; a portrait of Count Alexander Dmitriyev-Mamonov of which he is known to be the author dates to about this time. Shibanov was a serf of Prince Grigory Potemkin; his date of birth is unknown. Two of his genre scenes are held at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; the aforementioned portrait is in the Russian Museum.

Shibanov died sometime after 1798.

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Russian Portrait [sic] of the 18th and 19th century (exhibition catalog). Moscow, 1976.

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