Russian: 11 May [O.S. 29 April] 1811 - 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1893) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator.
Grigory Gagarin was born in Saint Petersburg to the noble Rurikid princely Gagarin family. His father, Prince Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin (Saint Petersburg, 17 March 1782 - Tegernsee, 12 February 1837), was a Russian diplomat in France and later the ambassador to Italy. His father married in Saint Petersburg in 1809 his mother Yekaterina Petrovna Sojmonova (Saint Petersburg, 23 May 1790 - Moscow, 27 February 1873). Thus until the age 13 the boy was with his family in Paris and Rome and then studied in the collegium Tolomei in Siena. Grigory did not receive a formal artistic education, but took private lessons from the famous Russian painter Karl Briullov who at that time lived in Italy.
In 1832 he returned to Saint Petersburg, became acquainted with Alexander Pushkin and illustrated his works The Queen of Spades and The Tale of Tsar Saltan.He also became close to the opposition Circle of Sixteen and Mikhail Lermontov. Related Paintings of Grigory Gagarin :. | Battle of Akhatle between Russians and Circassians on May | Outdoor Fete in Turkey | Trick Ridings of Curds and Tatars in front of the Fortress Sardar-Abbat in Armenia | Kakhetia. Karaagach. The Headquaters of Nizhegorodsky Dragoon Regiment | Battle of Akhatle between Russians and Circassians on May | Related Artists:
granadosPeriod: Post-Romantic (1870-1909)
Country: Spain
Born: July 27, 1867 in L??rida, Spain
Died: March 24, 1916 in At sea (in the English Channel)
Genres: Chamber Music, Keyboard Music, Miscellaneous Music, Opera, Vocal Music
Benjamin Patersenpainted Saint Petersburg in 1801
Ramon Casas i Carbo1866-1932,was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets.