Nikifor Stepanovich Krylov (russian: Никифор Степанович Крылов) was a Russian artist, portraitist and landscape painter.

Biography

The artist was born in 1802 in a poor family of a Kalyazin bourgeois.Никифор Степанович Крылов. Артхив.
/ref> At the beginning of 1823, together with the artel, he painted the iconostasis in Terebeni Monastery, Vyshnevolotsky Uyezd,

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, where he first met Alexey Venetsianov. In April 1824, he painted the iconostasis in the estate of A. P. Putyatin who lived next door to Venetsianov; in May, the artist again worked at the Terebeni Monastery and met Venetsianov again. At the request of Venetsianov, Krylov was accepted under the patronage of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. In 1825–1827, he performed a number of genre compositions, which were presented at the exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. His painting ''The boy with a candle in his hands'' was purchased by P. P. Svinyin for the Russian Museum. In the summer of 1825, he came to

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and settled in Venetsianov's house becoming one of his first students. In July of this year, he was allowed to attend drawing classes at the

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. He painted a picture ''View of the front garden at the apartment of Venetsianov'' which was acquired by Empress Elizaveta Alexeievna. In 1827, Krylov was awarded a small gold medal of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts for his work ''Winter'' and for his portraits, which were exhibited at the Academy of Arts. The painter died in a cholera epidemic in 1831.

Gallery

Sleeping boy (Nikifor Krylov).jpg ApraksinVS by Krilov.jpg Russian Winter (Nikifor Krylov).jpg Peasant woman with child by N.S.Krylov (before 1830s, Russian museum).jpg Никифор Крылов.webp Никифор Крылов, Смеющийся мальчик с пряниками.jpg

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krylov, Nikifor 1802 births 1831 deaths Deaths from cholera Portrait painters from the Russian Empire Landscape painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire