Grigol Maisuradze

Grigol Maisuradze, Portrait of N. Chichinadze. 1853

Grigol (Giorgi) Maisuradze (Georgian: გრიგოლ [გიორგი] მაისურაძე) (1817 — 1885) was a Georgian painter and a founder of realistic school in the Georgian portraiture.

Maisuradze was born in Tsinandali into the family of serf of Prince Alexander Chavchavadze, a poet and general in the Imperial Russian service. In 1836, Chavchavadze emancipated Maisuradze and sponsored his education in St. Petersburg where he studied under guidance of Karl Bryullov.^[1] In the 1850s he returned to his native Georgia and taught painting in Kutaisi where he died in 1885. Most of his works have been lost.

References

↑ Turner, Jane (1996), The Dictionary of Art, vol. 12, p. 326. Grove's Dictionaries, ISBN 1-884446-00-0

Bibliography

Kvaskhvadze, Shalva (1985), At the beginnings of Georgian Realistic Pictorial Portraits. Tbilisi: Sabchota Sakartvelo

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