Monday, November 12, 2012

Alexander Makovsky

Alexander Makovsky (1869-1924) was a Russian painter. He was the son of another prominent Russian painter, Vladimir Makovsky.

 Dancing Crane (1897)

 Annoyed (1897)

 Landscape with Church (1900)

 Portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

 Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna (1903)

 The Volga River

 Transportation on the Volga (1918)

View of Plios (1918)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Fedor Vasilev

Fedor Vasilev (1850-1873) was a Russian landscape painter. (Here's more on Vasilev.)

 After the Rain. Country Road (1867-69)

 After the Storm (1868)

 At the River. Windy Day

 Return of the Herd (1868 or 69 - hard to read the date at lower right)

 Swamp in the Forest. Autumn (1872)

 The Thaw (1871)

Volga Marsh

Wet Meadow (1872)

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Miscellanea

 A. Popov: Morning in the Countryside (1889)

 Ivan Sokolov: Picking Cherries in the Manor Garden

 Nikolay Bogdanov: It's Too Late!

 Rudolf Frents: At the Inn

Vladimir Menke: Morning on the Marsh

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Valentin Serov

Valentin Serov (1865-1911) was a Russian portrait painter.

 Girl in the Sunlight. Portrait of Maria Simonovich (1888)

 Old Bath-House in Domotkanovo (1888)

 Portrait of Adelaida Simonovich (1889)

 Portrait of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1893)

 Portrait of Ilya Repin (1901)

 Portrait of Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1898)

 Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova (1911)

 Portrait of Sofia Botkina (1899)

Portrait of actress M. Ya. Van-Zandt (1886)

Monday, November 5, 2012

Arseny Meshchersky, ctd

 At the Spring

 Forest Landscape with Boulders (1892)

 Landscape with a Lake (1870)

 Landscape with a Lake (1901)

 Landscape. Sunny Day

 Mountain Stream (1880s)

 Rocky Shore (1870)

Sailboat in the Sea (1870)

Friday, November 2, 2012

Andrei Nikolaevich Schilder

Andrei Nikolaevich Schilder (1861-1919) was a Russian landscape painter (there seem to have been a tremendous number of them!). I have been unable to identify titles of some of the paintings. Leave a comment if you can identify any of them.

 Apiary (1894)

 Birch Forest (1908)

 Forest Brook (1918)

 Title Unknown (1884)

 Title Unknown (1886)

 Title Unknown (1890)

Title Unknown (1919)