Nikanor Grigoryevich Chernetsov (Russian: Никанор Григорьевич Чернецов: 21 June 1805, Lukh ''–'' 11 January 1879,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian landscape painter. His elder brother

Grigory Chernetsov Grigory Grigoryevich Chernetsov (russian: Григорий Григорьевич Чернецов, 1802, Lukh — 1865, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter. He is notable mainly for landscapes of various parts of Russia, produced during hi ...

was also a painter.

Biography

His father and older brother, Yevgraf, were

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s. With the financial assistance of

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, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1823.Grigory and Nikanor Chernetsov
@ Claw.ru (art encyclopedia). After receiving a grant from the

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, he was able to enroll at the

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and studied with

Maxim Vorobiev Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (russian: Максим Никифорович Воробьёв; 17 August 1787, in Pskov – 11 September 1855, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian landscape painter. Biography He was the son of a retired soldier wh ...

until 1827.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. After graduating with a small gold medal, he travelled along the Black Sea coast with Count

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, then worked as a draftsman for

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. From 1833 to 1836, he was in the service of Mikhail Vorontsov, Governor-General of

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, travelling throughout

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, sketching nature, ruins, and ethnic customs. Many of these sketches later became paintings. Through Vorontsov, he became a good friend of

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and decorated his office with a landscape of

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. After 1838, he accompanied his brother, Grigory, and Anton Ivanov-Goluboy along the

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in a specially equipped boat/studio, making numerous sketches that were later turned into a

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that was 700 meters (2300 feet) in length and was wound on a roller. Pieces of it are still kept at the

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. During the 1840s, the brothers paid several visits to Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, but their book of lithographs, ''Palestine: Views Drawn from Life by the Academicians N. and G. Chernetsov in 1842–43'' was not very successful. Grigory continued to use this material, but Nikanor went back to views of Russia. When Grigory died, Nikanor was too poor to bury him. The academy provided 200 Rubles and, after much negotiating, agreed to buy their remaining portfolios and paintings in installments over several years, but this process was never completed.

Selected paintings

Вид на Тифлис Никанора Чернецова, 1832 год.jpg, View of

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Fortress

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Chernetsov.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chernetsov, Nikanor 1805 births 1879 deaths People from Ivanovo Oblast People from Yuryevetsky Uyezd 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian landscape painters