The artist Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky was born in a Jewish family in Kiev Governorate in 1880. From a young age, he showed a talent for drawing.

In 1902, Arnold Lakhovsky graduated from the Odessa Art School. At the age of 22, the artist moved to Munich, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1904, he came to St. Petersburg and entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He studied there under famous artists: Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov and Alexander Alexandrovich Kiselev.

Between 1908 and 1909, he taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. In the period from 1911 to 1912, he continued his studies at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1912, he received the highest rank and title of Artist for the painting “The Last Rays”.

During his life in St. Petersburg, he actively practiced his art and was a member of many artistic associations. After the October Bolshevik Revolution, he took part in the activities of the House of Arts in Petrograd, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1921. In 1919, he displayed his works at the First State Free Art Exhibition in Petrograd, as well as at many other art events.

At the age of 45, Arnold left for Paris at the invitation of the Luxembourg Museum. He became the manager of the artists’ section of the Union of Russian Art Workers in France and a founding member of the Masonic lodge “Free Russia”.

From 1927, the Jean-Baptiste Charpentier Gallery hosted a number of solo exhibitions by the artist. At the age of 53, Arnold Lakhovsky moved to New York, where his main source of income was the portraits he was commissioned to paint. In 1935, he was invited to teach at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The artist passed away in 1937.

Arnold Borisovich painted cityscapes of Russian and European cities, less often — genre paintings and portraits. He was a great admirer of French painting, in particular, the work of the Impressionists. He especially distinguished the landscape painter Alfred Sisley.

In his work, Arnold Lakhovsky combined the scenes of the Peredvizhniki and the Impressionist style of painting.