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Vasily Vereshchagin
(Russian: October 26, 1842 - April 13, 1904) was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited.
Vereshchagin was born at Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russia in 1842 as the middle of three brothers. His father was a landowner of noble birth. When he was eight years old he was sent to Tsarskoe Selo to enter the Alexander Cadet Corps, and three years later he entered the Sea Cadet Corps at St Petersburg, making his first voyage in 1858. He served on the frigate Kamchatka, which sailed to Denmark, France and Egypt.
Vereshchagin graduated first in the list at the naval school, but left the service immediately to begin the study of drawing in earnest. He won a medal two years later, in 1863, from the St Petersburg Academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors.
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Painting ID:: 84147
The Apotheosis of War
Date 1871(1871)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 127 cm (50 in). Width: 197 cm (77.6 in).
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Painting ID:: 87590
The Night Bivouac of the Napoleon Army during retreat from Russia in 1812.
Oil on canvas. Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Date 1896-1897
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Painting ID:: 88208
Derwische im Festtagsschmuck
Date 1869-1870
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 71.6 x 47.2 cm (28.2 x 18.6 in)
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Painting ID:: 89234
Plotzlicher Angriff
Date 1871(1871)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 82 x 206,7 cm
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Painting ID:: 89243
uber den Krieg
1873(1873)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 58,4 x 74 cm
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Vasily Vereshchagin
(Russian: October 26, 1842 - April 13, 1904) was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited.
Vereshchagin was born at Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russia in 1842 as the middle of three brothers. His father was a landowner of noble birth. When he was eight years old he was sent to Tsarskoe Selo to enter the Alexander Cadet Corps, and three years later he entered the Sea Cadet Corps at St Petersburg, making his first voyage in 1858. He served on the frigate Kamchatka, which sailed to Denmark, France and Egypt.
Vereshchagin graduated first in the list at the naval school, but left the service immediately to begin the study of drawing in earnest. He won a medal two years later, in 1863, from the St Petersburg Academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors.
. Related Artists to Vasily Vereshchagin: | Horace Vernet | David Hunter Strother | Francken, Frans II | BURGKMAIR, Hans | George Inness |
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