MAKAROV Ivan Kuzmich

(1822 - 1897). After graduating from the course of the district school, he studied art under the guidance of his father, in his drawing school, and became his assistant. Images sent in the Makarov Academy of Arts, together with the work of other students of the same school, drew it to the attention of the academic council, awarded him in 1842, Mr.. title neklassnogo artist. In 1845, Mr.. Makarov moved to St. Petersburg. Being engaged under A.T. Markov, Makarov chosen specialty portrait painting. In 1853, Mr.. visited Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Venice, Bologna, more than two years spent in Rome. He received the title of academician. Many of his portraits of distinguished pleasant flavor and foppish receiving letters, with a casual picture. In the museum of Alexander III - a portrait AL. Maksimovic, the Tretyakov Gallery - C. I. and IS. Kaminski, Makarov wrote many religious paintings, from which issued "without hands the image of the Savior" and "Christ blessing the Imperial family" (in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo).