Nikolai Petrovich Petrov
Nikolai Petrovich Petrov | |
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Николай Петрович Петров | |
![]() Nikolai Petrov (in the hat) with other members of the Artel | |
Born | Sankt Petersburg | September 6, 1834
Died | July 13, 1876 | (aged 41)
Education | Member Academy of Arts (1867)[1] |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1863)[1] |
Known for | Painting |
Nikolai Petrovich Petrov (Russian: Николай Петрович Петров; 18 September 1834, in Saint Petersburg – 25 July 1876, in Ariccia) was a Russian genre painter; one of the founders of the Artel of Artists.
Biography[]
He was born to a middle-class family and attended the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Alexey Markov and was awarded several small silver medals.[2] In 1860, he won a large silver medal for his painting of three fables by Ivan Krylov. In 1862, he was awarded a gold medal for his canvas "Courting the Tailor's Daughter", which remains one of his most familiar works.
The following year, he was one of the graduate students who participated in the "[2] Later, they and joined together to form the "Artel of Artists", an organization devoted to promoting Realism in the arts.
"; refusing to compete for a special gold medal on the occasion of the Academy's 100th anniversary, in protest of the school's continued adherence to what they felt were outmoded styles and teaching methods.Through the aegis of the Artel, he received numerous commissions. He was also involved in church decoration projects in Kronstadt, Ostrogozhsk, Oskol and Yekaterinodar and painted portraits of the nobility. For a time, he operated his own drawing school. In 1867, despite his participation in the Revolt, the Academy named him an "Academician" for his work, "Farmer in Distress".
In 1873, he began to show the symptoms of tuberculosis.[2] In an effort to regain his health, he moved to Italy, spent some time studying the Old Masters, and created genre scenes on Italian subjects. The climate failed to improve his illness, however, and he died from it in 1876. He was buried at the Cimitero Acattolico in Rome, not far from his fellow Russian painters, Pimen Orlov and Karl Bryullov.[2]
Works[]
- Examples of paintings by Nikolai Petrov
Bride before the wedding (1861)
Courting the Tailor's Daughter (1862)
Card game (earlier 1876)
Musician (1876)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 152.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Brief biography @ RusArtNet.
Literary sources[]
- С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). 2. p. 152.
External links[]
Media related to Nikolai Petrovich Petrov at Wikimedia Commons
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- 1834 births
- 1876 deaths
- 19th-century Russian painters
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Russian male painters
- Russian genre painters
- Painters from Saint Petersburg
- Tuberculosis deaths in Italy
- Infectious disease deaths in Lazio