Ivan Yendogurov

Ivan Ivanovich Yendogurov (; 23 October 1861, Kronstadt – 17 May 1898, Capri) was a Russian landscape painter and watercolorist; associated with the Peredvizhniki. His younger brother, Sergey was also a well-known artist.

Biography His father, , was a Counter Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. His mother was the daughter of Admiral . While attending the gymnasium, he and his brother became acquainted with the landscape painter, Yefim Volkov, and decided to make art their career.

After graduating in 1880, he began studying law at Saint Petersburg State University, but continued to take lessons from Volkov. In 1884, he left the University to audit classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts. His first exhibit came the following year and he was awarded a major silver medal in 1890.

From 1885 through to the early 1890s, he exhibited prolifically, at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, as well as with the Peredvizhniki; participating also in the Exposition Universelle (1889)

Toward the end of 1898, the Imperial Academy held a joint retrospective for three artists who had died that year: Yendogurov, Nikolai Yaroshenko and Ivan Shishkin. The following year, his mother endowed a fund at the Academy to establish the "Yendogurov Prize" for landscape painting. It was awarded until 1917.