Alexey Venetsianov

Style: Realism; Romanticism;

Place: Moscow

Born: 1780

Death: 1847

Biography:

Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (Russian: Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов 18 February 1780–4 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people. Alexey Venetsianov was born into a merchant family of Greek descent in Moscow. He entered the civil service in the early 19th century and moved to St. ...