Vereshchagin Vasily Petrovich

Painter, graphic artist (watercolorist, lithographer). Author of paintings on historical subjects, genre painter, portrait painter. Professor of painting. The son of the Perm painter P.P. Vereshchagin, brother of artists Pyotr Petrovich and Mitrofan Petrovich Vereshchagin. He acquired his first artistic skills first from his father, then from his grandfather, the icon painter I. Babin. Studied with the artist A.U. Orlov, with whom he painted the Transfiguration Cathedral in Perm. In 1856-1861 studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts with prof. A.T. Markov (historical painting class). In 1860 for the program “Scenes from the Olympic Games. Fight" was awarded a gold medal. In 1861, for the program “Grand Duchess Sofya Vitovtovna snatches the belt from Prince Vasily Kosoy at the wedding of Vasily the Dark” he was awarded a large gold medal, the title of class artist of the 1st degree and the right to retire abroad. In 1862, together with K.F. Gunn and brother M.P. Vereshchagin painted the Intercession Cathedral in Yelabuga. From 1863 to 1869 – pensioner of the Imperial Academy of Arts abroad. He visited Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Munich, Paris, and since 1864 he lived and worked in Rome. Upon returning from abroad, in view of his “remarkable works”, he received a pension from the IAH for another five years to work in Russia. Lived in St. Petersburg. He received the title of professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts, taught, and taught students watercolors in the costume class. In the early 1870s, he painted a series of large paintings based on Russian epics and Russian history to decorate the palace of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich in St. Petersburg (now the House of Scientists); in 1879 he worked on canvases for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Participant of academic exhibitions; member of the Society of Russian Watercolor Painters, the Moscow Society of Art Lovers and the St. Petersburg art society “Muassard Mondays”. In 1907 V.P. Vereshchagin donated several paintings by himself and his late brother to the Perm Museum; It was these paintings that served as the basis for the organization of the museum’s art department. Posthumous exhibitions of works by V.P. Vereshchagin took place in St. Petersburg (1910) and Moscow (1912). An exhibition of the master's works was held at the Perm State Art Gallery in 1984. Currently, the works of V.P. Vereshchagin's works are represented in the largest museum collections in Russia: the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Saratov Radishchev Art Museum, Perm and Primorye art galleries.