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ILJA JEFIMOVICH REPIN (1844– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ILJA JEFIMOVICH See also:

REPIN (1844– )  , See also:Russian painter, was See also:born in 1844 at Tschuguev in the See also:department of Charkov, the son of parents in straitened circumstances . He learned the rudiments of See also:art under a painter of See also:saints named Bunakov, for three years gaining his living at this humble See also:craft . In 1863 he obtained a studentship at the See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts of St See also:Petersburg, where he remained for six years, winning the See also:gold See also:medal and a travelling scholarship which enabled him to visit See also:France and See also:Italy . He returned to See also:Russia after a See also:short See also:absence, and devoted himself exclusively to subjects having strong See also:national characteristics . In 1894 he became See also:professor of See also:historical See also:painting at the St Petersburg Academy . See also:Repin's paintings are powerfully See also:drawn, with not a little See also:imagination and with strong dramatic force and characterization . A brilliant colourist, and a portrait-painter of the first See also:rank, he also became known as a sculptor and etcher of ability . His See also:chief pictures are " Procession in the See also:Government of See also:Kiev," " See also:Home-coming," " The See also:Arrest," " See also:Ivan the Terrible's See also:murder of his Son," and, best known of all, " The Reply of the See also:Cossacks to See also:Sultan Mahmoud IV." The portraits of the Baroness V . I. t)lskiil, of Anton See also:Rubinstein and of See also:Count See also:Leo See also:Tolstoy are among his best achievements in this class . The Tretiakov See also:gallery at See also:Moscow contains a very large collection of his See also:work . See " Professor Repin," by See also:Prince Bojidar Karageorgevich, in the See also:Magazine of Art, See also:xxiii. p . 783 (1899) ; " Russian Art," a See also:paper by E .

See also:

Brayley Hodgetts in the Proceedings of the Anglo-Russian See also:Literary Society (5th of May 1896) ; " Ilja Jefimovich Repin," by See also:Julius See also:Norden, in Velhagen and Klasing's Monatshefte, xx. p. i (1905); also R . Muther, See also:History of See also:Modern Painting (ed . 1907), iv . 272 . (E . F .

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