(1757–1825) — Ukrainian painter, famous master of portrait and icon painting, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Born in Myrhorod in the estate Cossack family of icon painter Luka Borovikovsky. He received his first artistic education from his father. For thirty years he lived and worked in Myrhorod, where in 1774 he received the rank of badge comrade. In the late 1780s he moved to St. Petersburg. Since 1795 he received the degree of academician, and since 1802 — advisor to the Academy of Arts.

The peculiarity of his style was the harmonious combination of the traditions of academic painting with Ukrainian motifs, which was especially evident in his early works.