Russian Actors

Mariano Fortuny (Fortuny in Sarbo) (11/06/1838 – 11/21/1874), Spanish painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge in Barcelona (1853) and Rome (from 1858). He lived in Paris (1860, 1866 – 1867), visited Morocco (1859, 1862, 1871). I have received huge popularity of genre paintings, inspired exoticism of [...]

Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukic (1757 – 1826) – painter of historical, ecclesiastical and portrait painting, was born in 1757 in Mirgorod, died in 1826, son of a nobleman, he was young was in the army, which left a lieutenant and then settled Mirgorod where and engaged in painting, is not known who was his first mentor [...]

Nikolai Ge (1831) – one of the original, the direction of Russian artists painters, was born in 1831, was educated at the gymnasium in Kiev, then entered the University of Kiev, and from there moved to St. Petersburg, but in the second year, leaving the university and entered the Academy of Arts. (1850), where he [...]

Watteau Jean-Antoine (1684 – 1721) – French painter. Rod of his paintings was determined Fine Arts Academy, where he was adopted in 1717 as a painter de fetes galantes. He was born in Valenciennes; His father was a worker and the contractor. B. from the very young age showed a tendency to art and was [...]

Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich (10/14/1842 – 03/31/1904) born October 14, 1842 in Cherepovets. His father was a landowner. At the age of eight, Basil gave to study in a young cadet corps.

Da Messina Antonello (died 1493), actually Antonello D'Antoni – a painter, was born in the early XV century. His art education was in Rome, but his original work belongs to Sicily, his homeland. Around 1473 Alexander settled in Venice, legend has it that he first introduced the Venetian school of artists in oils, which he [...]

Fedotov, Pavel Andreevich (22.06 (04.07) .1815 – 11/14/1852) – highly talented draftsman and painter, founder of comic genre in Russian art, the son of a poor civil servant, the former soldier Catherine's time, was born in Moscow. Eleven years old, there is almost no scientific training, he was determined to students 1-st Moscow Cadet Corps, [...]

Feodor Antonovich Bruni (10/06/1799 – 30.08 (11.09) .1875), Russian painter, an Italian by birth. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1809-1818) by A. Ivanov, AE Egorov, VK Shebuev. In 1818-1836 and 1838-1841 he worked in Italy. Professor (1836) and rector (1855-1871) of Petersburg Academy of Arts, in 1820-ies. in some of [...]

Tropinin Vasily Andreyevich (1776 – 1857) – painter-portraitist, was born a serf gr. Markov, who later released him to freedom. Nine-year-old has been identified in their master students of the Imperial Academy of Arts, formed in it under the guidance of Shchukin and, having finished her course in 1804, settled in Moscow, where he worked [...]

Menzel Adolph Friedrich Erdmann (1815) – The famous German historical and genre painter, attended, but very short time, the classes of academic artists in Berlin and formed almost self-taught. He first became known in 1833 notebook drawings, executed with pen and depicting "Life Artist" (Kunstlers Erd wallen). During this youthful effort AM followed by a [...]