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Nikolay Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Никола́й Его́рович Мако́вский; 10 May 1841,
Nikolay Makovsky
@ Russian Painting * M. Trofimenkov, "Семейное бессознательное" (lit: "The Unconscious Family"). ''The Artists Makovsky'' at the Russian Museum from the magazine ''Kommersant'', December 2008
* ''The Artists Makovsky'', exhibition at the Russian Museum (2008-200
{{DEFAULTSORT:Makovsky, Nikolay 1841 births 1886 deaths Artists from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Peredvizhniki Russian painters Russian male painters 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni
Nikolay Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Никола́й Его́рович Мако́вский; 10 May 1841, Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
— 18 October 1886, Saint Petersburg
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) was a Russian painter; one of a quartet of artist siblings that included his brothers Konstantin
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and Vladimir
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and his sister Alexandra
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.
Biography
His father, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, was an accountant by profession, but was also an amateur artist, avid art collector and one of the founders of theMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (russian: Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ) also known by the acronym MUZHZV, was one of the largest educational insti ...
. He received his earliest education at the and attended 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 ...
from 1859 to 1866.
In 1865, he was awarded a silver medal for his work on a small stone church with 150 parishioners. Upon graduation, he was given the title of "Free Artist", which conferred the right to work on construction projects. Shortly thereafter, he became an architect's assistant at the Ministry of the Imperial Court
The Ministry of the Imperial Court (russian: Министерство императорского двора) was established in Russia in 1826, and embraced in one institution all the former separate branches of the Court administration.
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, but eventually gave up his position there to devote all of his time to painting.
In 1870, he became one of the charter members of the "Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions" (Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...
), but didn't participate fully until 1875. In 1872, he was awarded the designation of "Artist Second-Degree" from the Academy.
From 1873 to 1874, he and his brother Konstantin toured Egypt, then he travelled extensively throughout Russia and Ukraine. He later spent several months at the Russian art colony in Paris, where he worked with Alexey Bogolyubov
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (russian: Алексей Петрович Боголюбов; 16 March 1824 – 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape art, landscape painter.
Biography
Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Gube ...
. From this point on, most of his paintings were shown in travelling exhibitions.A. I. Somov, "Маковский", Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...
, edited by K. K. Arseniev and F. F. Petrushenko, 1896, Vol.XVIII "Лопари – Малолетние преступники"
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Nikolay Makovsky
@ Russian Painting * M. Trofimenkov, "Семейное бессознательное" (lit: "The Unconscious Family"). ''The Artists Makovsky'' at the Russian Museum from the magazine ''Kommersant'', December 2008
* ''The Artists Makovsky'', exhibition at the Russian Museum (2008-200
{{DEFAULTSORT:Makovsky, Nikolay 1841 births 1886 deaths Artists from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Peredvizhniki Russian painters Russian male painters 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni