Vasily Tropinin: 94 Masterpieces

This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Tsaneva contains 92 selected reproductions of paintings from Vasily Andreevich Tropinin. Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Gold-Embroideress. Since 1833 he mastered the Moscow Public Art Classes that later became the famous Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1843 he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow Art Society. Tropinin died in 1857 and was interred on Vagankovo Cemetery. During his life he painted more than 3,000 portraits.