Il'ya Repin

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Russian Naturalist painter

Born 1844 - Died 1930

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Sadko

Oil on canvas

Private collection, ,

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Cossacks on the Black Sea

1908

Oil on canvas

360 x 254 cms | 141 1/2 x 100 ins

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Unexpected Return

1883

Oil on panel

45 x 37 cms | 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 ins

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moskva, Russian Federation

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St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death

1890

Oil on canvas

215 x 198 cms | 84 1/2 x 77 3/4 ins

Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

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St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death

1888

Oil on canvas

215 x 196 cms | 84 1/2 x 77 ins

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Unexpected Visitors

1884-1888

Oil on canvas

160.5 x 167.5 cms | 63 x 65 3/4 ins

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moskva, Russian Federation

Credit: Visipix: 500,000+ hi-res image

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Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow

1885-1886

Oil on canvas

292.7 x 490 cms | 115 x 192 3/4 ins

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moskva, Russian Federation

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Demonstration on October 17, 1905

1907-1911

Oil on canvas

184 x 322 cms | 72 1/4 x 126 3/4 ins

Russian Museum, ???, Russian Federation

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Portrait of S.F. Mamontova

1879

Oil on canvas

Abramtsevo State Museum, Abramtsevo, Russian Federation

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REPIN, ILIYA EFIMOVICH (1844-1930), Russian painter, was born in 1844 at Tschuguev in the department of Charkov, the son of parents in straitened circumstances. He learned the rudiments of art under a painter of saints named [I. M.] Bunakov, for three years gaining his living at this humble craft. In 1863 he obtained a studentship at the Academy of Fine Arts of St Petersburg, where he remained for six years, winning the gold medal and a travelling scholarship which enabled him to visit France and Italy. He returned to Russia after a short absence, and devoted himself exclusively to subjects having strong national characteristics. In 1894 he became professor of historical painting at the St Petersburg Academy. Repin's paintings are powerfully drawn, with not a little imagination and with strong dramatic force and characterization. A brilliant colourist, and a portrait-painter of the first rank, he also became known as a sculptor and etcher of ability. His chief pictures are Procession in the Government of Kiev, Home-coming, The Arrest, Ivan the Terrible's murder of his Son, and, best known of all, The Reply of the Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV. The portraits of the Baroness Varvara Ikskul von Hildenbandt, of Anton Rubinstein and of Count Leo Tolstoy are among his best achievements in this class. The Tretyakov gallery at Moscow contains a very large collection of his work.

See "Professor Repin," by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevich, in the Magazine of Art, xxiii. p.783 (1899); "Russian Art", a paper by E. Brayley Hodgetts in the Proceedings of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society (5th of May 1896); "Ilja Jefimovich Repin," by Julius Norden, in Velhagen and Klasings Monatshefte, xx. p. I (1905); also R. Muther, History of Modern Painting (ed. 1907), iv. 272. (E. F. S.)

Source: Entry on the artist in the 1911 Edition Encyclopedia.

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