About Petr Zabolotskiy
Lived 1803 – 1866 (aged 62–63). Petr Zabolotskiy was a Russian painter.
Pyotr Yefimovich Zabolotskiy (Russian: Пётр Ефи́мович Заболо́тский or Заболоцкий; 1803 — March 12 [ O.S. February 28] 1866) was a Russian portrait painter, representative of the romantic academicism of the Nicholas era, author of the widely known of the poet Mikhail Lermontov. From 1857, he was an Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Biography He was born into a bourgeois family (according to another source, in the family of a poor craftsman ). There is practically no information about Zabolotsky's childhood and youth, or his first experiences in fine art.
He was close to the schools of A. G. Venetsianov, Orest Kiprensky and Vasiliy Tropinin. (1837)
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Who was Petr Zabolotskiy?
Russian painter (1803-1866)
When was Petr Zabolotskiy born?
Petr Zabolotskiy was born in 1803 in Tikhvin.
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Petr Zabolotskiy died on 28 February 1866.
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Petr Zabolotskiy was a painter.
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Petr Zabolotskiy was Russian.
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