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oldpaintings

The Old Shepherds Chief Mourner, c.1837 by Edwin Landseer (English, 1802--1873)

constanzarte

Gustav Wertheimer, The Kiss of the Siren.

constanzarte

Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda

huariqueje

Nasturtium - Joke Frima , 2000.

Dutch, b. 1952 -

Oil on linen , 75 x 50 cm

thepinkpestilence

Elena Kiseleva (Detail) Portrait of a woman/On the balcony/Beautiful Hortensia/Summer residents/Self-Portrait/Marusya/Portrait of Lyubov Brodskaya/Brides. Trinity Day/Portrait of a woman

Elena Kiseleva was born in Voronezh into the family of teacher and mathematician Andrei Petrovich Kiselev in 1878. Elena Kiseleva received her first private drawing lessons from Mikhail Ponomarev, a famous Voronezh photographer and artist. In 1898, after contracting typhus, Kiseleva decided to devote herself to the artistic path and became a student at the Higher Art School of the Academy of Arts. Elena Kiseleva became the first woman to graduate from the Academy of Arts and officially receive a pension for studying abroad. The portrait of her son on his deathbed is Elena Kiseleva's last work. She kept the picture in her room; according to the artist's will, it was burned during cremation after her death. The artist died at the age of 95.