Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (Russian: Николай Корнилиевич Бодаревский; 6 December 1850,

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— 1921, Odessa) was a

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painter and art professor; associated with the

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Biography

He was born to a family of the old

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n nobility and his father was a Titular Councillor.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. He graduated from the Odessa Art School, which was a branch of the

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.Brief biography
@ Russian Paintings. From 1869 to 1873, he attended the academy, where he studied with

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. During his time there, he was awarded four silver and two gold medals. In 1875, he was named an "Artist", first-class, for his depiction of

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explaining Christianity to King

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. In 1880, he began to exhibit with the Peredvizhniki. He became a member in 1884 and continued exhibiting with them until 1918."Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок"
a list of the Peredvizhniki. After becoming acquainted with the works of Whistler, he painted numerous female portraits in a similar style, including one of the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. In 1889,

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, Director of the

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, commissioned him to paint fourteen portraits of famous composers for the Great Hall. As part of the

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during

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's rule, four portraits were removed in 1953, in favor of other composers.

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and Haydn were recovered in 1999 and reinstalled. Gluck and

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remain missing. Along with Viktor Vasnetsov,

Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of ...

, Andrei Ryabushkin and others, he participated in decorating the new

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; providing sketches for sixteen mosaics of scenes from the Bible and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1908, for his work there, he was named an "Academician" by the academy. His work is little known outside Russia, as he never exhibited abroad. After the Revolution, he returned to Odessa and died there during a famine related to the Russian Civil War, although it is unclear whether or not that was the cause of his death.

Selected paintings

File:Bodarevsky By the Pond.jpg, By the Pond File:Bodarevsky-nicholas-kornilevich-1850-1921-sunbathing.jpg, Sunbathing File:Bodarevsky 015.jpg, Girl from Little Russia File:Nikolai Bodarevsky 001.jpg, Saint Paul Before King Herod Agrippa

References

External links

''Художник Николай Бодаревский: чужой среди своих''
(Nikolai Bodarevsky; a Stranger Among his Own) by Yelena Khorvatova @ LiveJournal.
ArtNet: More works by Bodarevsky.
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Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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