Spanish Realist/Impressionist Painter, 1863-1923 Related Paintings of Joaquin Sorolla :. | Father Ho madman security costs | The Beach of Valencia,the sun of Morning | Return from Fishing Towing the Bark | La fiesta del pan | Ayala portrait | Related Artists: Jonas Akerstrom Swedish, 1759-1795 Ilya Yefimovich Repin 1844-1930
After training with a provincial icon painter and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he visited France and Italy on an academy scholarship. On his return he began painting subjects from Russian history. In 1873 he achieved international fame with Volga Boatmen, a grim, powerful image that became the model for Soviet Socialist Realism. Among his best-known works is Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1895), depicting Ivan's murder of his son. He also painted vigorous portraits (including Leo Tolstoy and Modest Mussorgsky). In 1894 he became professor of historical painting at the St. Petersburg Academy. Master of Virgo inter Virgines Netherlandish Painter,
active 1470-1520