Nikolay Dmitrievich Mylnikov (russian: Никола́й Дмитриевич Мы́льников; born
Yaroslavl, 1797 – died there, 1842) was a Russian portrait
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
active during the nineteenth century in the
Yaroslavl Governorate.
Together with
Grigory Ostrovsky and
Ivan Tarkhanov, Mylnikov belongs to a group of "naive" portrait painters from the Upper Volga region that was rediscovered by
Savva Yamshchikov in the 1970s.
Mylnikov's only surviving works appear to be a series of
portraits of citizens of Yaroslavl, currently held in the
Yaroslavl Art Museum
Yaroslavl ( rus, Ярослáвль, p=jɪrɐˈsɫavlʲ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence ...
; these include several depictions of
merchant
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s and their wives and children, as well as a pair of portraits painted for a local
landowner.
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Russian portrait painters
People from Yaroslavl
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
Russian male painters
1797 births
1842 deaths
19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire
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