Nikolay Koshelev
| Nikolay Koshelev | |
|---|---|
 Portrait by Ivan Kramskoi, 1866 | |
| Born |
1840 Serman, Russia |
| Died |
1918 Petrograd, Russia |
Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ко́шелев) (May 3, 1840 – 1918) was a Russian painter.
Biography
Koshelev was born in the village of Serman, in Penza Oblast. Being poor, Koshelev could not afford to enter the Alexander Stupin School of Painting in Arzamas, and instead became an apprentice of a local Church painter. In 1860, Koshelev travelled to St. Petersburg and studied at the Saint Petersburg School of Art. In a notable early collaboration with Ivan Kramskoi, he worked on the interior of the Salvator Cathedral.
Koshelev began by painting portraits and genre art, but soon transferred mainly to historical painting. In 1873, he was made an academician and five years later a professor at the Academy. Koshelev generalized himself with the Russian academic camp of painting more so than with the association of travelling exhibitioners.
In 1902, he moved to Brazil to paint the interiors of the Russian Orthodox churches located there. A set of paintings by Koshelev depicting the passion of Jesus are presented at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Jerusalem.
Selected paintings
Descent from the Cross, at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Scene from the Life of a Bureaucrat
Morning in the Village
References
External links
Media related to Nikolay Koshelev at Wikimedia Commons