The portrait is executed according to the drawing of the architect SA Ivanov, the artist’s brother. Ivanov Alexander Andreevich is a painter and draftsman, the author of paintings on historical and religious themes, genre scenes and landscapes.
Trying to solve his works global moral problems, eternal for mankind – faith, betrayal, love, ideal. He believed that all phenomena of the world are closely interrelated in the subject-philosophical unity.
Related Paintings 
Buste d’A. A. Ivanov – Luigi Guglielmi 
Busto A. A. Ivanova – Luigi Guglielmi 
Water and stones under Palazzuolo, near Florence by Ivanov A 
Portrait of A. Bryullov by Karl Bryullov 
Solemn bust of Peter I 
Princes in the Tower by John Everett Millais 
Portrait of Count M. M. Speransky by P. A. Ivanov 
Bellerophon goes on a campaign against the Chimera by Alexander Ivanov
Buste d’A. A. Ivanov – Luigi Guglielmi Busto A. A. Ivanova – Luigi Guglielmi Water and stones under Palazzuolo, near Florence by Ivanov A Portrait of A. Bryullov by Karl Bryullov Solemn bust of Peter I Princes in the Tower by John Everett Millais Portrait of Count M. M. Speransky by P. A. Ivanov Bellerophon goes on a campaign against the Chimera by Alexander Ivanov