biography
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Repin, Ilya Yefimovich
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pronunciation:
[repeen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1844–1930)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Chuguyev, E Ukraine. Trained as an icon painter, and then at the St Petersburg Academy, he became professor of painting there (1893–1907). The major representative of naturalism in Russia during the second half of the 19th-c, he gained popularity with paintings such as ‘The Reply of the Cossacks of Zaporoguus to Sultan Mahmoud IV’, which his contemporaries saw as a symbol of the Russian people throwing off their chains; but he also painted portraits of famous contemporaries, such as Mussorgsky (1881) and Tolstoy (1887). |
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