François Nicholas Riss
François Nicholas Riss ( Russian Франц Николаевич Рисс / Franz Nikolajewitsch Riss ; * 1804 in Moscow , † 1886 ) was a painter of French descent who worked in France and Russia.
Born in Russia , he studied painting in Paris with Baron Antoine-Jean Gros . His wife, Pauline, also engaged in painting. During his stay in France he mostly created portraits, including the well-known portrait of the discoverer of Canada, Jacques Cartier . He returned to Russia in the 1830s and settled in Saint Petersburg . There he painted portraits of u. a. by princes Grigori Volkonsky and Alexei Golitsyn, as well as by the poet Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky . The portrait of Zhukovsky brought him the appointment as an academician of portrait painting in 1833. In 1863 he was honored with an honorary membership of the Academy of Fine Arts. Riss took part in the creation of murals for St. Petersburg 's St. Isaac's Cathedral .
His son Paul Riss (1831–1861) went on research trips to the Caucasus and Northern Persia. He published " Общие замечания о южном береге Каспийского моря " (General Notes on the South Coast of the Caspian Sea).
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- Biography on biografija.ru (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Riss, François Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riss, Franz Nikolajewitsch; Рисс, Франц Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter of French descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1886 |