Artist: Ilya Yefimovich Repin Painting: Dragonfly. Portrait of Vera Repina Introduction: Dragonfly. Portrait of Vera Repina, the artist's daughter. Oil on canvas. 111 x 84,4 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Artist: Ilya Yefimovich Repin Painting: Portrait of Lydia Kuznetsova Introduction: Portrait of Lydia Kuznetsova. Oil on canvas. 117 x 64 cm. Private collection.
1844-1930
After training with a provincial icon painter and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he visited France and Italy on an academy scholarship. On his return he began painting subjects from Russian history. In 1873 he achieved international fame with Volga Boatmen, a grim, powerful image that became the model for Soviet Socialist Realism. Among his best-known works is Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1895), depicting Ivan's murder of his son. He also painted vigorous portraits (including Leo Tolstoy and Modest Mussorgsky). In 1894 he became professor of historical painting at the St. Petersburg Academy.
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