Nikolai Yaroshenko
Russian painter (1846–1898) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Николай Александрович Ярошенко;[lower-alpha 1] Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Ярошенко, romanized: Mykola Oleksandrovych Yaroshenko; 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 – 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin.
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Self-portrait (1895) | |
Born | 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 |
Died | 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898 |
Occupation | Painter |
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Yaroshenko painted many portraits, genre paintings, and drawings. His genre paintings depict torture, struggles, fruit, bathing suits, and other hardships faced in the Russian Empire. During the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading painters of realism in the Eastern Europe.