Afanasy Prokopievich Razmaritsyn (Russian: Афанасий Прокопиевич Размарицын; 1844 in Ukraine? – 1917 in Odessa) was a Russian-Ukrainian historical

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painter; associated with the

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Biography

He was born to a noble family, probably somewhere in Ukraine. Originally, he was employed at the Odessa office of the

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. He was fond of making pencil sketches of his friends, who told him he should take up art professionally.Biographical note
@ ArtCyclopedia. In 1874, he left the civil service and went to

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, where he showed his work to Professor

Eduard von Gebhardt Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt (13 June 1838 – 3 February 1925) was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Biography He was born to Ferdinand Theodor von Gebhardt (1803� ...

, a Baltic-German who had studied in Saint Petersburg. On that basis, he was enrolled in the Academy of Arts. He apparently gave little time to his studies and was often ill. After spending three years there, he took a trip through France and Italy and returned to Odessa in 1877. He lived in a hotel and supported himself by giving drawing lessons. He had his début in 1882, with a painting called "Requiem", at an exhibition of the Peredvizhniki. It was acquired by

Pavel Tretyakov Pavel Mikhaylovich Tretyakov (russian: Па́вел Миха́йлович Третьяко́в; 27 December 1832 – 16 December 1898) was a Russian businessman, patron of art, collector, and philanthropist who gave his name to the Tretyakov Ga ...

for his gallery. Rozmaritsin 002

His first solo exhibition was in 1884 and he held a major joint showing with Nikolai Bodarevsky in 1889. He participated in the Exposition Universelle (1900), became a full member of the Peredvizhniki in 1903,Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок:
a list of the Peredvizhniki and their exhibits was named an honorary "Academician" by the

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in 1910 and was one of the founders of the "". He dropped out of sight in 1916, and likely died the following year. The cemetery where he was buried was destroyed in 1935. He worked very slowly, giving great attention to detail, and left relatively few works.

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