
Ilya RepinOekraïne, 1844–1930Mag men het zien?
Sint-Petersburg, Rusland
De eigenaar is bekend; of het werk nu te zien is, is onbekend.
1863–1871 · Opleiding
Imperial Academy of Arts
1863–1871
Kramskoi — mentor — and the artists’ artel
Repin regarded Ivan Kramskoi as his direct mentor: he was at home in the artists’ artel Kramskoi founded, showed him his student sketches and listened to his advice. After Kramskoi’s death he wrote recollections in which he called him his teacher.
1863–1871
Friends at the Academy: Vasily Polenov and Mark Antokolsky
During eight years at the Academy Repin made many friends: at Vasily Polenov’s home he was always warmly received, and with the sculptor Mark Antokolsky, who had come from Vilna, he grew close in the way, Antokolsky later wrote, that only lonely people in a strange land can.
1865
Serebryanaya medal Akademii
За эскиз «Ангел смерти избивает всех перворождённых египтян».
1869
Znakomstvo s Vladimirom Stasovym
Художественный критик на многие годы вошёл в «ближний круг» Репина.