Pyotr Sokolov (painter)

Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Соколов; 1821, Saint Petersburg - 2 October 1899, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and illustrator.

Biography

He was the eldest son of the watercolor portraitist Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov. Although he received lessons from his father, he was largely self-taught until 1840, when he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts. He studied there for three years with his uncle, Karl Bryullov, as well as Pyotr Basin and Fyodor Bruni.^[1] He preferred hunting and genre scenes, but also did the occasional portrait.

From 1877 to 1878, he was a frontline correspondent in the

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  "Lebedyan"
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  "The Office"
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  "Lgov"
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  "Pyotr Petrovich Karataev"

References

• The Sokolov Family, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906, @ Russian WikiSource

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pyotr Sokolov.

• ArtNet: More works by Sokolov.