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1850, Stepanovka, Kherson Province — 1929, Sarajevo, Jugoslavia

Portrait of Ilya Repin

1885

  • oil on canvas. 71 x 63
  • Ж-2797

  • Received from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Petrograd


Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), painter, draughtsman and teacher. Studied at the Military Topography School, under the artist I. M. Bunakov in Chuguev, and later at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1863) under Ivan Kramskoi. He later studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1864–1871) and was one of their scholars in France and in Italy — he mostly lived in Paris. He was an Academician (from 1876), a Professor (from 1892) and an active member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1893). He was a member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1878), of the Vienna Secession (from the 1890s) and a participant in exhibitions from 1865. He taught at the Higher Arts Institute at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893–1907) and at the Princess Maria Tenisheva Art School (1895–1899). He lived in the Penaty estate near St Petersburg (from 1900). 


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