Alexandra Yegorovna Makovskaya (russian: Александра Егоровна Маковская; 1837 in

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– 1915 in Moscow) was a Russian landscape painter.

Biography

Makovskaya was the eldest child of

Egor Makovsky Egor Ivanovich Makovsky (14 April 1802 – 9 August 1886) was a Russian accountant and artist, one of the founders of the forerunner of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Early life Born in 1802 in Zvenigorod (although oth ...

, one of the founders of the

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. He encouraged all of his children to become artists and gave them lessons. Alexandra,

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, Nikolay and

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followed in his footsteps.Biographical notes
@ Russian Painting. His youngest child, Mariya, became an actress. After her parents were divorced, Makovskaya lived with her mother in Saint Petersburg.Brief biography
@ Susun.ru In 1866, she began to exhibit her paintings at the

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. She also exhibited with the

Peredvizhniki Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...

from 1878 to 1893 and the Moscow Society of Lovers of Fine Art from 1881 to 1896. After 1902, she participated in the showings of

Mir Iskusstva ''Mir iskusstva'' ( rus, «Мир искусства», p=ˈmʲir ɪˈskustvə, ''World of Art'') was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it inspired and embodied, which was a major influence on the Russians who helped revolutionize Eur ...

. Sources differ as to whether she died in Saint Petersburg or returned to Moscow at the beginning of World War I. Her works have never been catalogued. In 1997, a major retrospective of works by the entire Makovsky family was held at the

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References

1837 births 1915 deaths 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian painters Russian landscape painters Russian women painters Artists from Moscow 19th-century women artists from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian women artists Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni {{Russia-painter-stub