Nikola Petrov (painter)

When he was old enough, he went to Sofia and, in 1899, became part of the second group of students accepted for the newly organized State Drawing School (now the National Academy of Arts).

He studied with the sculptor Marin Vasilev and Jaroslav Věšín, a Czech battle painter.

[1] He continued to pursue his own styles, however, and spent much of his time painting en plein air; a habit to which he had been introduced by Věšín.

Following his first showing in 1904, he participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, including London (1907), Munich and Venice (1910), Belgrade (1912) and Berlin (1916).

[1] In addition to his paintings, he helped decorate Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, provided drawings for children's magazines and illustrated a book of poems by Pencho Slaveykov.