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| Constantin Makovsky 1839–1915, Boyarina, Oil on canvas, 26 x 21.6 in |
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (June 20, 1839 – September 17, 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the Wanderers. Konstantin was born in Moscow as the older son of a Russian art figure and amateur painter, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky. In 1851 Konstantin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he became the top student, easily getting all the available awards. His teachers were M. I. Skotty, A.N. Mokritsky, S.K. Zaryanko, all of them pupils of Karl Brullov. In 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Makovsky became a member of a co-operative (artel) of artists led by Ivan Kramskoi, typically producing Wanderers paintings on everyday life. From 1870 he was a founding member of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions. He exhibited his works on both the Academia exhibitions and the Traveling Art Exhibitions of the Wanderers. At the World’s Fair of 1889 in Paris he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Judgement of Paris, and Demon and Tamara. He was one of the most highly appreciated and highly paid Russian artists of the time. Many critics considered him forerunner of Russian Impressionism. Makovsky became a victim of a road accident (his horsedriven carriage was hit by an electric tram) and died in 1915 in Saint Petersburg. His works are in the Hermitage Museum and the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg; the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington D.C.
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