In January 1839, Shevchenko was accepted as a resident student at the Association for the Encouragement of Artists. That same year, approval of Shevchenko’s drawings by the Association for the Encouragement of Artists, guaranteed his acceptance into the Imperial Academy of Arts as an external student, practicing in the workshop of Karl Bryullov. The release from serfdom was signed on April 22, 1838. The 2500 rubles required were raised through a lottery in which the prize was a portrait of the poet Vasiliy Zhukovsky, painted by Karl Bryullov. Recognizing his talent as an artist, prominent members of the intelligentsia, who had befriended Shevchenko, arranged to buy him out of serfdom. Petersburg and in 1832, Engelhardt "contracted" him to the master painter Vasiliy Shiryayev, with whom the lad experienced a hard school of professional training. At the beginning of 1831, he left for St. Shevchenko remained with his landlord's servants in Vilnius and was witness to the revolutionary events. When the Polish rebellion for national liberation from Russia began in November 1830, Engelhardt left for the Russian capital, St. In the spring of 1829, Taras travelled with Pavlo Engelhardt to Vilnius, Lithuania. Taras Shevchenko, Self-Portrait with Candle, 1860, etching, aquatint
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