Albert Nikolayevitch Benois

Albert Nikolayevitch Benois (; – 16 May 1936) was a Russian painter and art teacher who specialized in watercolor landscapes.

Biography His father was the architect, Nicholas Benois. He graduated from secondary school in 1871, then attended the Imperial Academy of Arts and took private watercolor lessons from Luigi Premazzi. In 1877, he graduated with the title of "Artist-Architect", first-degree, and took up watercolor painting. In 1880, he was one of the founding members of the "".

He became a member of the Imperial Academy in 1890 and was appointed a professor of watercolors in 1894; a position he held until 1905. He also served on the academy's governing board. In 1895, he was appointed a curator at the Russian Museum.

In his later years, he suffered from a disease of the feet (possibly gout) and was cared for by his daughter. He died at a nursing home in a suburb of Paris in 1936.

Family

His family included many notable figures in the arts. In addition to those mentioned above, the architect Alberto Cavos was his grandfather. The artist and theatrical designer Alexandre Benois and the architect Leon Benois were his brothers. He was also the uncle of painter Zinaida Serebriakova, and great-uncle of Sir Peter Ustinov. His grandson, Alexander Tcherepnin, was a composer and pianist of note. His son Nikolai was married to the opera singer Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova.

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