Aleksandr Makovsky

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Makovsky (Russian: Александр Владимирович Маковский; 5 April 1869, Moscow – 26 October 1924, Leningrad) was a Russian Realist painter and graphic artist; associated with the Peredvizhniki.

[1] In 1884, he enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied with Illarion Pryanishnikov and Vasily Polenov as well as continuing to work with his father.

From 1889 to 1893, he was in Paris, attending a private art school operated by Fernand Cormon.

Two years later, he became the curator of textbooks at the Academy's library and, in 1898, was promoted to supervisor of teacher training.

Just before his death, he had a showing at an exhibition of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.