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Birth
1869 (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Death
1939 (Paris, France)
Lived/Active
Russian Federation/France
Self portrait -
Often Known For
portrait, figure, landscape and aristocratic genre painting, teaching
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Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician. The family had a big collection of paintings, etchings, watercolors, and big library; the artists were frequent guests in the house. Constantin started to learn to play piano, singing, and painting early.
From 1888 till 1897, he studied at the Academ (showing 500 of 5126 characters). |
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