Ivan Shishkin [Marsh, Polesie] 1890

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◧ Artist: Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898) 
◧ Country: Russia
◧ Title: [Marsh, Polesie]      
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 89.5 x 142 cm (35.2" x 55.9")

◧ Museum: The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus
◧ County of Stamp Issue: Belarus
◧ Date of Issue: May 2, 2018
◧ Face Value: A - No Face Value
◧ Issued as a part of Masterpieces Painting from Museums of Belarus series

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Shishkin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for four years. After that, he attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860 and graduated with the highest honours and a gold medal. He received the imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe.

Five years later Shishkin became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was professor of painting from 1873 to 1898. At the same time, Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the Highest Art School in St. Petersburg.

For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts.  (excerpt from Wikipedia)
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