Vladimir Makovsky

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), younger brother of Konstantin Makovsky, father of Alexander Makovsky. Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture (1858–66) and was awarded the Vigée-Lebrun Medal and title of first-class artist by the Imperial Academy of Arts (1869). Painted small genre scenes (1870s), social dramas (1880s–90s) and images of revolutionaries (1870s–1900s). Academician (1873), professor (1892), full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1872), board member (1874). Took up etching (1880s). Illustrated the works of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol. Taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1882–94) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1894–1918, rector 1895–96). Died in Petrograd and buried at the Smolensk Cemetery (1920). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1862). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1864–73), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1872–1918), Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1881–99), Society of Russian Watercolourists (1885) and the World Exhibitions in Vienna (1873), Antwerp (1884, grand prix), Chicago (1893), Munich (1909, gold medal) and London (1910).