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{{Short description|Serbian painter}}
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[[File:Aleksandrovic-Grape.jpg|thumb|215px|Grape Harvest Girl (1878)]]
'''Ljubomir Aleksandrović''' ({{langx|sr|Љубомир Александровић}}; 15 June 1828, {{ill|Semarton|sr|Српски Семартон}}, [[Banat]] – 15/27 December 1887, [[Budapest]]) was a Serbian painter. He specialized in portraits and [[iconography]].

== Biography ==
He began receiving lessons at an early age from [[Nikola Aleksić]], then continued with [[Konstantin Danil]] until 1842, when he assisted him in painting an [[iconostasis]] at the [[Cathedral church]] in [[Timișoara]].<ref name="G">[http://www.galerijamaticesrpske.rs/2015/slika-u-fokusu-jun.html Galerija Matice srpske]</ref> Around 1850, he studied at the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna]].

At the beginning of the 1860s, he settled in Timișoara, where he painted portraits (many from photographs) and icons and lived for much of his life. In 1869, he created the last of his major works that would be dependent on what he had learned from Danil; at the Serbian church in the village of {{ill|Nemet (village)|sr|Немет|lt=Nemet}} in [[Timiș County]].<ref name="G" />

He was generally quite poor and suffered from a recurring nervous illness, heightened by unspecified family conflicts. It worsened to the point where it became necessary to place him in the mental asylum at Leopold's Field ({{ill|Lipótmező|hu}}), in Budapest, where he died.<ref>''{{ill|Српски Сион|sr}}'' (Serbian Zion), [[Sremski Karlovci]], 5 August  1901</ref> In 1893, his remains were returned to Timișoara and reinterred.<ref>''Српски сион'', Sremski Karlovci, 21 March 1893</ref>

His most notable icons may be seen at [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox church]]es in Botoš (now part of [[Zrenjanin]]) and Ferdin (now known as [[Novi Kozjak]]).<ref>''{{ill|Време|sr|Време (новине)}}'' (Time), Belgrade 7 November 1925</ref>

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* ''{{ill|Народна енциклопедија|sr}}'' – (Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian), S. Stanojević, editor. Zagreb 1925–1929

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