Thursday, December 25, 2014

Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky



Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) was born in Moscow into a family of Russian artists and amateur artist, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky.
Painting studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
In 1870, he became one of the founders of the "Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions."
In 1880 Konstantin Makovsky was fashionable author of portraits and historical paintings, one of the highest Russian artists of the time.



Selёdochnitsa (1867). The State Russian Museum



Children's portrait (1879). Private collection


Manor (1882). Private collection

                              



Portrait of the artist's children (1882)

Under the crown (1884)



Minin appeal to Nizhny Novgorod (ok.1890)

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