Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov – Winter in Russia

Description

Oil on panel. 25 x 45 cm (framed 50 x 70 cm).
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov is a renowned Russian painter and sailor. Grandson of the writer A.N. Radishchev, he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts with a gold medal and was appointed artist to the Naval Headquarters. After leaving naval service, he traveled throughout Europe for seven years, training in the studios of leading artists in Paris, Geneva, and Düsseldorf.
He painted on the orders of Emperor Nicholas I, whom he accompanied as a painter on a trip to Russia by the future Emperor Alexander III.
He received the title of academician and professor of painting and engaged in charitable work for widows and orphans.

On the orders of Emperor Alexander II, he began the story in the paintings of Peter the Great's fleet.

In the Orthodox church in Paris, he painted several frescoes. In Russia, he founded an art school and the A.N. Radishchev Museum, to which he bequeathed almost all of his works.

Thanks to Bogolyubov's mediation, Kramskoy, Savitsky, and Polenov received favorable commissions. In his later years, he lived in Paris, occasionally visiting Russia. In the 1870s, a constellation of young artists graduating from the Academy of Arts, including Repin, Polenov, Antakolsky, and Savitsky, who had the opportunity to go to Paris for training, found refuge in Bogolyubov's home there.
The artist died in Paris and was buried in his homeland, Saint Petersburg, next to his parents.
Primarily a marine painter, A.P. Bogolyubov turned with particular affinity to the landscape genre of mainland Russia. Scholars write of the affinity of his style with the Barbizon school and later with the Impressionists, and each time they note the particular immediacy and emotional depth of his works and the indescribable originality of his artistic style.
The painting presented here is one of the outstanding examples of his work in the landscape genre, a kind of collective image of Russia.

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