Nikolai Vasilyevich Nevrev (1830-1904) was a Russia

Russia

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n painter.

Life

Nevrev was born to a family of merchants in Moscow

Moscow

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. At the age of 21, Nevrev entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by the 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow in 1832, and the Palace School of Architecture, established in 1749 by Dmitry Ukhtomsky. By...

, where he studied under the Russian-Italian painter, Mikhail Sсotti. In the 60s, Nevrev painted one of his masterpieces, "The Market" (1866), in which he depicted the sale of serfs

Serfdom

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. His other paintings focused on criticisms of the Church.

Painting

He temporarily stopped working in the 1870s, for seemingly unknown reasons, but began painting historical art in the 80s. In 1881, Nevrev became a member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions

Peredvizhniki

Peredvizhniki , often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.- History :In 1863 a group of fourteen students...

. Nevrev's best work during this time was arguably his genre paintings, each exhibiting a human moral. At the age of 74, Nevrev lost his son and consequently committed suicide

Suicide

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Commemoration

On 25 September 1980, the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 issued a 6 kopek

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 postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth (together with that of Konstantin Flavitsky

Konstantin Flavitsky

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky was a Russian painter.His most famous painting is Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of...

).

An international open-air painting festival is held annually in his honor in the Mogilev Region

Mahilyow Voblast

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 of Belarus

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External links

• Bargaining (1866)
• Boyar on the Porch