Fedir Aaronsky

Fedir Ivanovych Aaronsky (Фе́дір Іва́нович Ааро́нський) (around 1742, Hittsi Synetski, Hetmanate (now Hittsi, Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast) — August 24, 1825, Kyiv) — Ukrainian painter, finift enamel artist, icon painter. In monastic life (from 1802) — Feodosiy.

Works

 * Portraits of Catherine I, Dmitry Rostovsky, Alexander Nevsky.
 * Icons:
 * "Assumption of the Virgin,"
 * "Guardian Angels"
 * "Christ with a Crown of Thorns"


 * Finift works:
 * a stand for the Gospel of the Church of Mykola Dobrogo (Kyiv; preserved in the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine);
 * 8 decorations for the works of F. Sorokin (1789);
 * 4 medallions for an icon (1800);
 * decorations for a small altarpiece Gospel (frame by S. Rostovsky) and Apostle and Gospel (frame by Samson Strelbitsky; all — 1801). The Lavra presented the last two editions to Empress Yelizaveta Oleksiyivna and Emperor Alexander I.

After Aaronsky's death, 70 unfinished paintings and 83 finift works were left.