Khariton Platonovich Platonov (russian: Харито́н Плато́нович Плато́нов; 1842, Vorona, Mologsky Uyezd, Yaroslavl Governorate,

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- 18 September 1907,

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(now Kyiv, Ukraine)) was a Russian Imperial

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painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Kiev. A majority of his works feature young women as their subjects.

Biography

He was born to a peasant family. From 1859 to 1870, he attended the

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where he was awarded silver medals for "success in drawing" in 1862, 1863 and 1867.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. Upon graduating, he was given the title of "Artist", third degree, and became a lecturer at a district school in Tsarskoye Selo. After presenting two works at the Academy's exhibition in 1872, he was promoted to Artist, second degree. In 1878, for his painting "Bulgarian Boy", he received a gold medal from the Academy's council. In 1883, he became an Artist of the first degree and, in 1893 was named an "Academician".Biographical notes
@ ArtRu. In 1889, his painting "The Little Jewish Girl" was purchased by Finance Minister Ivan Vyshnegradsky After 1877, he was a resident of Kiev, where he taught at the Kiev Drawing School; founded in 1875 by Nikolay Murashko. From 1884 to 1889, he worked on the mural restoration project at St. Cyril's Church, under the direction of Mikhail Vrubel. In 1901, he helped reorganize the drawing school and broaden its curriculum to become the "Kiev Art School". Among his most prominent students were

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Mykola Burachek Mykola Burachek (or ''Buraček'', uk, Микола Бурачек) (March 16, 1871 in Letychiv, Podillia Guberniya (now Khmelnytskyi Oblast) – August 12, 1942, in Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue. Biography ...

and . He had major showings at the 31st and 32nd exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki and exhibited widely throughout Russia.Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок
a list of the Peredvizhniki and their exhibits.

Works

Hariton Platonov Krestyanskaya Devochka 1876.jpg, Spilled milk (1876) Platonov 003.jpg, Boy shooting a bow (1878) Hariton Platonov Malenkaya Nyanya 1880.jpg, The little baby-sitter (1880) Platonov 001.jpg, Naymichka (1886) Platonov 004.jpg, Berry sellers (1888) 1888 Platonov Oxana anagoria.JPG, Oksana (1888)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Platonov, Khariton 1842 births 1907 deaths People from Mologsky Uyezd 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian genre painters Peredvizhniki 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire