Grigory Ostrovsky

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Grogory Ostrovsky, Portrait of Elizaveta Cherevina, eighteenth century

Grogory Ostrovsky, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, eighteenth century

Grigory Ostrovsky was a Russian painter active during the eighteenth century.

Nothing is known of Ostrovsky's life, and little is known about his career; the only paintings which can be definitively traced to him are 14 signed and dated portraits which were discovered in the 1970s. All 14 come from the Nerovo estate, located near Soligalich. In the eighteenth century this belonged to the Cherevin family, and most of the portraits are of members of the family. Stylistically, the paintings appear to be the work of an itinerant painter; there is a possibility, too, that he may have studied icon painting.

Ostrovsky's paintings are currently held by the Kostroma Art Museum in Kostroma.