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Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky (Russian: Евграф Фёдорович Крендовский, 1810,
Русская Живопись: Biography
/ref> In 1835, family issues forced him to return to Kremenchuk, where he became the drawing tutor for a local landowner's family in nearbyRusArtNet: Biography
/ref> Despite being relatively isolated in the provinces, some of his best-known works were created during the 1840s, some of which are now in the
File:Evgraf Krendovskiy - Ukrainka.jpg, Ukrainian Woman
(date unknown) File:Evgraf Krendovskiy - A.A. Bashilov with family.jpg,
Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky (Russian: Евграф Фёдорович Крендовский, 1810, Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk (; uk, Кременчу́к, Kremenchuk ) is an industrial city in central Ukraine which stands on the banks of the Dnipro River. The city serves as the administrative center of the Kremenchuk Raion (district) in Poltava Oblast (pr ...
, Poltava Governorate
The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a Governorate (Russia), gubernia (also called a provin ...
, Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
— 1870s, unknown) was a Russian portrait, genre
Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other for ...
and interior portrait
The interior portrait (portrait d'intérieur) or, in German, Zimmerbild (room picture), is a pictorial genre that appeared in Europe near the end of the 17th century and enjoyed a great vogue in the second half of the 19th century. It involves a c ...
painter.
Biography
Little is known of his background. His father was apparently a constable of some sort so, as a young man, he worked at the police station inArzamas
Arzamas (russian: Арзама́с) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka), east of Moscow. Population:
History
Arzamas was founded in 1578 by Ivan the Terrible in the lands popul ...
, where he also attended the famous art school operated by Alexander Stupin
Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin (russian: Александр Васильевич Ступин; February 1776 in Arzamas – in Arzamas) was a Russian painter and art teacher. He founded and led the Arzamas School of Painting, Russia's first ...
. From 1830 to 1835, he lived in Saint Petersburg and studied with Alexey Venetsianov
Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (russian: Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов; 18 February 1780–4 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people.
Life
Alexe ...
. At that time, he is known to have presented an exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...
.Русская Живопись: Biography
/ref> In 1835, family issues forced him to return to Kremenchuk, where he became the drawing tutor for a local landowner's family in nearby
Poltava
Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively ...
Province. Four years later, on the basis of two paintings sent to the Academy, he was awarded the title of "Free Artist"./ref> Despite being relatively isolated in the provinces, some of his best-known works were created during the 1840s, some of which are now in the
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...
.
Slightly more than twenty paintings constitute his entire known output. His last extant work is dated 1853, and he may have operated a private art school in the 1860s. His fate after that point is unknown, although it is generally believed that he lived at his brother's estate near Arzamas and died sometime during the 1870s.
Selected paintings
(date unknown) File:Evgraf Krendovskiy - A.A. Bashilov with family.jpg,
Alexander Bashilov
Alexander Alexandrovich Bashilov (russian: Александр Александрович Башилов) (August 31, 1777 in Hlukhiv - December 31, 1847 in Moscow) was a Russian general officer of Napoleonic Wars period, later engaged in urban pla ...
with His Family (1830)
File:Evgraf Krendovskiy - To hunt.jpg, To the Hunt (1836)
File:Evgraf Krendovsky. Children. Daughters of the Artist.JPG, The Artist's Daughters (1845)
References
Further reading
* М. N. Shumova. ''Русская живопись первой половины XIX века'' (Russian Painting of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century). Моscow, Искусство (1978) p. 92External links
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