This portrait of Alexander Stupin, the head of the Arzamas Art School, was made by an unknown painter. It is impossible to identify the paintings of painters from the Stupin School as they were serfs.
Pyotr Kornilov, a bibliophile and art collector, wrote that the Alexander Stupin Art School was the only source of artistic knowledge for serf talents in the early 19th century. Most of their works are sadly still unidentified. Serfs did not have many civil rights, including the right of authorship, and thus they couldn’t sign their own work.
Academician Alexander Stupin was the founder of the first provincial art school in Russia. It played a major role in the development of Russian national culture and enlightenment. On its long road to development, it became the miniature academy of arts with an extensive vocational education program.
Since the establishment of the Arzamas Art School many famous artists graduated from it. Among these artists were Vasily Raev, Nikolay Alexeev, Kuzma Makarov, Nikolay Rachkov, Pavel Vedenetsky, and Evgraf Krendovsky. The works of these masters from the Stupin School currently decorate the halls of museums in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Arzamas.
This portrait of Alexander Stupin is depicted on a piece of tin, which was not a widespread painting material. Its surface is as smooth as glass, and it does not bend or deform after the paint dried. The tin basis was cleaned from rust and then covered in a special priming. It differed from others with its steady adhesion between the paints and its smooth surface. The oil paints could not hold onto a smooth metallic surface without a layer of such priming.
Pyotr Kornilov, a bibliophile and art collector, wrote that the Alexander Stupin Art School was the only source of artistic knowledge for serf talents in the early 19th century. Most of their works are sadly still unidentified. Serfs did not have many civil rights, including the right of authorship, and thus they couldn’t sign their own work.
Academician Alexander Stupin was the founder of the first provincial art school in Russia. It played a major role in the development of Russian national culture and enlightenment. On its long road to development, it became the miniature academy of arts with an extensive vocational education program.
Since the establishment of the Arzamas Art School many famous artists graduated from it. Among these artists were Vasily Raev, Nikolay Alexeev, Kuzma Makarov, Nikolay Rachkov, Pavel Vedenetsky, and Evgraf Krendovsky. The works of these masters from the Stupin School currently decorate the halls of museums in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Arzamas.
This portrait of Alexander Stupin is depicted on a piece of tin, which was not a widespread painting material. Its surface is as smooth as glass, and it does not bend or deform after the paint dried. The tin basis was cleaned from rust and then covered in a special priming. It differed from others with its steady adhesion between the paints and its smooth surface. The oil paints could not hold onto a smooth metallic surface without a layer of such priming.
