Benois-Charles Mitoire
Benois-Charles Mitoire (Benois-Charles Mitoire, 1782-1832) - Russian artist, painter and lithographer of French origin, academician of painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
The son of a Lyons treasury official and later a lawyer in Paris. At the age of 19, his father kicked him out of the house, and Benoit-Charles went to Russia. Arrived in St. Petersburg in 1801. In 1806 he was granted Russian citizenship, after he married a Russian woman, "and decided to stay in Russia forever."
From 1801 he worked in Russia. In the 1810s he lived in the Reserve Palace and the Konyushenny Dvor at the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace.
Since 1813 he was recognized by the Imperial Academy of Arts "appointed to the academician". In the same year he received the title of academician for the portrait of FF Shchedrin, "with the meaning of belonging to his art."
According to some reports, the artist did not leave the Russian Empire until 1830. He left Russia of his own free will, possibly because of a divorce from his wife.
Buried in Paris.
Author of many portraits of representatives of the Russian nobility, statesmen of the Russian Empire and genre scenes.
