Nikolai Petrovich Petrov (Russian: Николай Петрович Петров; 18 September 1834, in
Saint Petersburg – 25 July 1876, in
Ariccia) was a Russian
genre painter; one of the founders of the
Artel of Artists.
Biography
He was born to a middle-class family and attended the
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under
Alexey Markov
Alexei Mikhailovich Markov (; born 26 May 1979 in Moscow) is a Russian former professional track and road bicycle racer.
Major results Track
;1996
: 2nd Team pursuit, Summer Olympics
;1997
: UCI World Cup
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and was awarded several small silver medals.
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@ RusArtNet. In 1860, he won a large silver medal for his painting of three fables by
Ivan Krylov. In 1862, he was awarded a gold medal for his canvas "Courting the Tailor's Daughter", which remains one of his most familiar works.
The following year, he was one of the graduate students who participated in the "
Revolt of the Fourteen
The Revolt of the Fourteen (russian: Бунт четырнадцати, translit=Bunt chetyrnadtsati) was the refusal of 14 top students in the Imperial Academy of Arts of the Russian Empire to participate in a competition that was held on the 1 ...
"; refusing to compete for a special gold medal on the occasion of the Academy's 100th anniversary, in protest of the school's continued adherence to what they felt were outmoded styles and teaching methods.
Later, they and joined together to form the "Artel of Artists", an organization devoted to promoting
Realism in the arts.
Through the aegis of the Artel, he received numerous commissions. He was also involved in church decoration projects in
Kronstadt,
Ostrogozhsk,
Oskol and
Yekaterinodar and painted portraits of the nobility. For a time, he operated his own drawing school. In 1867, despite his participation in the Revolt, the Academy named him an "Academician" for his work, "Farmer in Distress".
In 1873, he began to show the symptoms of
tuberculosis.
In an effort to regain his health, he moved to Italy, spent some time studying the
, and created genre scenes on Italian subjects. The climate failed to improve his illness, however, and he died from it in 1876. He was buried at the
Cimitero Acattolico
The Cimitero Acattolico (Non-Catholic Cemetery) of Rome, often referred to as the Cimitero dei protestanti (Protestant Cemetery) or Cimitero degli Inglesi (English Cemetery), is a private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome. It is near ...
in Rome, not far from his fellow Russian painters,
Pimen Orlov
Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian: Пи́мен Ники́тич Орлóв; 1812, near Malo-Foshchevaty, Ostrogozhsky Uyezd, Voronezh Governorate — 6 October 1865, Rome) was a Russian painter in the Classical style. He worked in a wide variety o ...
and
Karl Bryullov.
Selected paintings
Петров Смотрины-невесты 1861.jpg, Bride before the wedding (1861)
Petrov 001.jpg, Courting the Tailor's Daughter (1862)
Petrov Nikolay Petrovich.jpg, Card game (before 1876)
File:NPPetrov-Musician.jpg, Musician (1876)
References
Literary sources
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External links
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1834 births
1876 deaths
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Russian male painters
Russian genre painters
Painters from Saint Petersburg
Tuberculosis deaths in Italy
Infectious disease deaths in Lazio
19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire