The collection of the Ostrogozhsk Museum features the “Portrait of Yevdokiya Platonovna Sinelnikova”, the wife of the wealthy merchant Sinelnikov, painted by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoy.
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy holds a special place in Russian art of the second half of the 19th century. He was a remarkable portraitist, a drawing artist, a creator of significant thematic paintings, an art critic, a talented teacher, a prominent organizer in the area of art, and a representative of an entire generation of Russian artists. Ivan Kramskoy was the founder of the St. Petersburg Artel of Artists, a co-founder of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, and a thought leader of the Wanderers. He believed that Russian art should develop in its own authentic way.
Throughout his career in art, Ivan Kramskoy focused on the realistic depiction of humans in art. His work was imbued with a keen interest in modern people and their perception of life. Ivan Kramskoy created a wonderful gallery of psychological portraits of his great contemporaries: writers, artists, and public figures, including Emperor Alexander III, Leo Tolstoy, Pavel Tretyakov, Dmitri Mendeleev, Ivan Aivazovsky, and many others. The portraits by Ivan Kramskoy are characterized by thoroughness and depth.
Many of Kramskoy’s portraits, including the “Portrait of Yevdokiya Platonovna Sinelnikova”, were painted in gratitude for help. On numerous occasions, the Sinelnikovs helped the Kramskoy family in times of hardship: after Ivan Kramskoy left his hometown, his mother Anastasiya Kramskaya stayed there with her elder son Mikhail and was in need of financial support.
The Sinelnikovs were famous Ostrogozhsk merchants and philanthropists. In the early 19th century, they invited Velichkovsky, a famous painter and graduate of the Academy of Arts, to paint the main cathedral in Ostrogozhsk. The Trinity Cathedral also housed icons painted by Ivan Kramskoy. Unfortunately, during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period, most of the churches in Ostrogozhsk were destroyed.
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy holds a special place in Russian art of the second half of the 19th century. He was a remarkable portraitist, a drawing artist, a creator of significant thematic paintings, an art critic, a talented teacher, a prominent organizer in the area of art, and a representative of an entire generation of Russian artists. Ivan Kramskoy was the founder of the St. Petersburg Artel of Artists, a co-founder of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, and a thought leader of the Wanderers. He believed that Russian art should develop in its own authentic way.
Throughout his career in art, Ivan Kramskoy focused on the realistic depiction of humans in art. His work was imbued with a keen interest in modern people and their perception of life. Ivan Kramskoy created a wonderful gallery of psychological portraits of his great contemporaries: writers, artists, and public figures, including Emperor Alexander III, Leo Tolstoy, Pavel Tretyakov, Dmitri Mendeleev, Ivan Aivazovsky, and many others. The portraits by Ivan Kramskoy are characterized by thoroughness and depth.
Many of Kramskoy’s portraits, including the “Portrait of Yevdokiya Platonovna Sinelnikova”, were painted in gratitude for help. On numerous occasions, the Sinelnikovs helped the Kramskoy family in times of hardship: after Ivan Kramskoy left his hometown, his mother Anastasiya Kramskaya stayed there with her elder son Mikhail and was in need of financial support.
The Sinelnikovs were famous Ostrogozhsk merchants and philanthropists. In the early 19th century, they invited Velichkovsky, a famous painter and graduate of the Academy of Arts, to paint the main cathedral in Ostrogozhsk. The Trinity Cathedral also housed icons painted by Ivan Kramskoy. Unfortunately, during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period, most of the churches in Ostrogozhsk were destroyed.
