The image created by the remarkable Russian artist, the participant of the Polish uprising A. O. Orlovsky in “Self-portrait” is the ideal of the personality of the Romantic era: a person overwhelmed with passions, whose thoughts and imaginations create a new world. The creator, be it a poet or an artist, endowed with a special gift from above, to see and feel that which is hidden from others was perceived as akin to the Demiurge.
A free independent person, a true hero of his time – this is how the author of this figure appears. A recalcitrant gaze from under frowning eyebrows, dark curls that do not want to obediently lie on his head – the entire look of the artist gives him a fighter. Rebellious spirit was peculiar to romanticism, lay in his very philosophy.
Violent temperament of the author is reflected in the style of writing a portrait, in the nature of the strokes – juicy and sweeping. The work makes an impression at one time created improvisation, lively and expressive.
Autoportrait dans une cape rouge – Alexander Orlovsky 
Autorretrato con un impermeable rojo – Alexander Orlovsky 
Portrait of the composer and chemist Alexander Borodin Porfirievich by Ilya Repin 
In the field by Vladimir Orlovsky 
Portrait of F. A. Borovsky by Vladimir Borovikovsky 
Portrait of N. Gogol by Alexander Ivanov 
Portrait of Antonio Broccardo by Giorgione 
Portrait of the architect Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov by Dmitry Levitsky