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Vasily Semyonovich Sadovnikov (; – ) was a Russian painter, and a leading Russian master of perspective painting.
Sadovnikov, Olga's Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadovnikov, Vasily 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Male painters from the Russian Empire 1800 births 1879 deaths 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire
Vasily Semyonovich Sadovnikov (; – ) was a Russian painter, and a leading Russian master of perspective painting.
Biography
Vasily Semenovich Sadovnikov was born in 1800 inSaint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
.
Vasily's brother, Pyotr Sadovnikov, was the architect of the Stroganov
The Stroganov family (Russian: Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы; French: Stroganoff) emerged as a preeminent Russian noble family renowned for their roles as merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. By the reign of Iv ...
and Golitsyn families. He started his professional training with Andrey Voronikhin
Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin (; 28 October 1759, Novoe Usolye, Perm Oblast – 21 February 1814, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monume ...
, subsequently became a Member of Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts
The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow University, under the name ''Academy of the ...
(1849).
He died in 1879 in Saint Petersburg and was buried at Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery (now abolished).
See also
*Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexand ...
, another painter who was born a serf.
*Andrey Voronikhin
Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin (; 28 October 1759, Novoe Usolye, Perm Oblast – 21 February 1814, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monume ...
, an architect who was a serf.
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Sadovnikov, Olga's Gallery
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