Bogdanov-Belsky, Nickolay - Portrait of Princess MP Abomelek-Lazareva - postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Portrait of the Princess M. P. Abamelek-Lazoreva
• Artist (if known): Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
• Media or other details:  oil on canvas
• Publisher / Gallery: The State Hermitage, Leningrad / Ministry of Culture, USSR
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

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Stock No.: A660

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian: ??????´? ?????´??? ?????´???-??´??????; 1868–1945) was a Russian painter.

Bogdanov-Belsky was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868. He studied art at the Semyon Rachinsky fine art school, icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895. He worked and studied in private studios in Paris in the late 1890s.

Bogdanov-Belsky was active in St. Petersburg. After 1921, he worked exclusively in Riga, Latvia. He became a member of several prominent societies in including the Peredvizhniki from 1895, and the Arkhip Kuindzhi Society from 1909 (of which he was a founding member and chairman from 1913 to 1918).

Bogdanov-Belsky painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies. He became pedagogue and academician in 1903. He was an active Member of the Academy of Arts in 1914. Since 1921, he lived in Riga.^[1] Bogdanov-Belsky died in 1945 in Berlin.

He was a member of the Russian Fraternitas Arctica in Riga.

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period=1945 - present

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