23 November] 1773) was a Russian neoclassical painter and academician who specialized in historical subjects and portraits.
Anton Losenko was born to the family of a Russian negotiant Pavel Yakovlevich Losev in Hlukhiv, in the region of Chernihovshchyna (now in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine).
In 1760, the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under the French neoclassical painter Jean II Restout.
[2] From an episode of Kievan Rus' history, he painted his classical canvas of Vladimir I of Kiev and Rogneda of Polotsk.
While in this position Losenko wrote a text book called "Short Explanation of the Human Proportions" that served a few generations of painters in the Russian Empire.