Adolsky Ivan (after 1686-1758)

-Russian painter, portraitist and printmaker. He worked at the Armory in Moscow.

 From 1721 he taught at the St. Petersburg art printing and engraving in Pskov icon painters and artists of the Office of the picturesque team rebuilt, worked in the imperial palaces.

 In 1728 he returned to Moscow.
In 1735 - 36 he was the overseer of the Armory.
 Author Portrait of Catherine I with a black boy 1725-26 (State Russian Museum),
portraits of Peter 1:
 Including - the famous "Azov" is not preserved).

 Artistic style Adolskogo feature free drawing, black and white modeling volume (lightening of individual parts of the form and the construction of the contrast of light and shadow areas), the body art, the desire to convey the quality of surface texture.