Golicke Vasily (Wilhelm August) (1802-1848)

Vasily (Wilhelm August) Golicke began his career in painting, as it started the majority of medieval artists, student-performer in the workshop of English portrait painter George Dawe, to create a guest at the Winter Palace, a gallery of portraits of generals - members of the war in 1812.

 The hard work during the execution of this order of the imperial court, despite the fact that the "journeyman" worked on portraits of copies prepared by the Dow, was for the young artist a good school.

After the departure of the master to his homeland B. Golicke while he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and all the rest of his time not too long life he painted portraits, genre and even the battle scenes.

Probably not all of the artist and could not claim that he was a major painter, but the "downtime" V. Golicke had among his clients were members of the imperial family and the well-known public figures. This is direct evidence of the high skill German-Russian artist - VA Golicke.