Ivan Kramskoy - part 2

Portrait of Ivan Kramskoy by Nikolay Yaroshenko 1874 
watercolour 28 x 23 cm

Ivan Kramskoy (1837 – 1887) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. For Biographical notes on Kramskoy, and for earlier works, see part 1. This is part 2 of a 2-part post on Ivan Kranskoy:

1878 Portrait of U. F. Samarin 
oil on canvas 87 x 69 cm

1879 Portrait of singer Elizabeth Andreevny Lavrovsky, on stage at the Assembly of Nobility  
oil on canvas

1879 Portrait of ( the writer ) Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov ( N. Shchedrin ) 
oil on canvas 88 x 68 cm

1879 Adrian Viktorovich Prahova 
oil on canvas

1879 Zhukovka  
watercolour

1880 Portrait of Dr. Sergei Petrovich Botkin

1880 Portrait of Anatoly Kramskoy, the Artist's Son 
oil on canvas 73.5 x 86.5

1880 Moonlit Night 
oil on canvas 178.8 x 135.2 cm

1880 Portrait of Empress Maria Fiodorovna born Princess Dagmar of Denmark ( Wife of Russian Tsar Alexander III ) 
oil on canvas 55 x 47 cm

c1880 Portrait of Maria Fyodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark ( Wife of Russian Tsar Alexander III ) 
oil on canvas

1886 Portrait of Alexander III 
oil on canvas 129 x 92 cm

A fan from the possessions of Maria Fyodorovna painted by Kramskoy in 1886 with portraits of Alexander III and their children Nikolai, Georgi, Mikhail and Olga 

Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

1880 Portrait of the painter Ivan Shishkin 
116 x 84 cm

c1880 Veranda 
watercolour

c1880 Portrait of S.I. Kramskoy 
watercolour

1881 Portrait of Alexey Suvorin 
oil on canvas 109 88 cm

1882 Girl with a Cat ( Portrait of Sophia Kramskaya ) 
oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm

1882 Kramskoi Ivan Mina Moiseev Sun 
oil on canvas

1882 Laughter ( Hail, king of Judah ) 
oil on canvas

1882 Portrait of Barbara Kirillovna Lemokh

1882 Portrait of Sophia Ivanovna Kramskoy, daughter of the artist

1882 Portrait of Nikolay Kramskoy, the Artist's Son 
oil on canvas

1883 Peasant with a Bridle 
oil on canvas 125 x 93 cm

1883 Actor Alexander Lensky Pavlovich as Petruchio in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"
oil on canvas

1883 Portrait of Sergei Kramskoy, Son of the Artist 
oil on canvas

1883 Portrait of a Woman 
oil on canvas 75.5 x 99 cm

1883 Portrait of a Woman 
oil on canvas 75 x 99 cm

1883 Portrait of Sergei Kramskoy, Son of the Artist 
oil on canvas

1883 Siverskaya 
watercolour

1884 Ivan Kramskoy working on a painting of his daughter 
oil on cardboard

1884 Inconsolable Grief 
oil on canvas 228 x 141 cm

1884 Bouquet of Flowers 
oil on canvas

1884 Portrait of a Woman 
oil on canvas

1884 Portrait of Olga Afanasiyevna Raftopulo

1885 Portrait of Yuri Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsev

1885 Portrait of Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov 
oil on canvas 113 x 94 cm

1886 Herodias

1886 Portrait of the astronomer Otto Struve Vasilyevich 
oil on canvas

1886 Astrologer 
watercolour

1887 Children in the Forest

n.d. Portrait of a Woman 
watercolour

Ivan Kramskoy - part 1

1867 Self-Portrait ( detail ) 
oil on canvas 52.7 x 44 cm

Ivan Kramskoy (1837 – 1887) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. He was born in 1837 in Ostrogozhsk in south-western Russia. During his childhood Kramskoy independently studied drawing and later began working with watercolour. When he was 16 he worked as a colour-correction artist for a photographer. In 1856 he moved to St. Petersburg and continued to work with photographers. The following year he entered the Arts Academy. During his academy years he gathered the progressive youth around him. He was the head of the protest against painting the pieces ordered by the council.

Kramskoy himself began to mature as a portraitist. He often employed his favourite graphic technique, using sauce, bleach and Italian pencil. Using this method he drew portraits of other artists. His art technique corresponded well with the image of the intellectual democrat, a common character of his paintings such as "Self Portrait" 1869 (see above) and "Portrait of an Agronomist M.E. Vyunnikov 1868.

1868 Portrait of an agronomist M.E. Vyunnikov 
oil on canvas

In 1863-1868 Kramskoy taught at the Drawing School of the Artist Encouraging Society. By the end of the decade the St. Petersburg Team lost its unity and social status. Kramskoy left it and became one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki Society (The Comradeship of Moving Arts Exhibitions).

His prevailing success remained in portraiture. In the 1870s-80s he created some of his best works, including a series of portraits of prominent people of the tim such as Leo Tolstoy. During his lifetime Kramskoy also executed many commissions for church paintings and portraits to earn his living. He died in 1887.

Russian Stamp from 2012 celebrating 175th anniversary of Kramskoy's birth

Russian Stamp from 2012 celebrating 175th anniversary of Kramskoy's birth

This is part 1 of 2-part post on the works of Ivan Kramskoy:

1861 Prayer of Moses after the Israelites go through the Red Sea 
oil on canvas 142.6 x 105.7 cm

1866 Portrait of the Artist Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev

1866-69 Sophia Kramskaya Reading 
oil on canvas 64 x 56 cm

1867 Portrait of a Woman

1867 Portrait of Princess Catherine Alekseevny Vasilchikova  
oil on paper

1868 The Portrait of a Peasant 
oil on canvas

1868 Portrait of artist and photographer Mikhail Borisovich Tulinova

1869 Portrait of A.P. Bogoliubov

c1870 Path in a Forest 
oil on canvas 46.7 x 67.3 cm

1871 Mermaids 
oil on canvas 88 x 132 cm

1871 Portrait of the Artist Fyodor Vasilyev 
oil on canvas 88.3 x 68.3 cm

1871 Portrait of ( poet and artist ) Taras Shevchenko 
oil on canvas 84 x 65 cm

1871 Somnambulant

1871 Portrait of the Artist Konstantin Savitsky 
 oil on cardboard 42 x 33 cm

1872 Beekeeper 
oil on canvas 63 x 49 cm

1872 Books Got Her 
oil on canvas

1872 Christ in the Wilderness 
oil on canvas 180 x 210 cm

1872 Portrait of the Artist Arkhip Kuindzhi 
oil on canvas 35.8 x 28.6 cm

1872 Old Man with a Crutch 
oil on canvas 76.5 x 57.5 cm

1873 Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 
oil on canvas 98 x 79.5 cm

1873 Portrait of ( the painter ) Ivan Shishkin 
oil on canvas 110.5 x 78 cm

1873 Girl with a Loose Braid 
oil on canvas 57.2 x 48.9 cm

1873 The Miller 
oil on canvas 73.5 x 58 cm

1874 Forester 
oil on canvas 84 x 62 cm

1874 Outraged Jewish Boy  
oil on canvas

1874 Portrait of Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

1874 Self-Portrait 
oil on canvas

1875 Portrait of the Artist Mikhail Dyakonov 
oil on canvas

1875 Portrait of the poet Yakov Polonsky  
oil on canvas

1875 Portrait of Sofia Nikolaevna and Sophia Ivanovna Archaeology 
( Wife and Daughter of the Artist ) 
oil on canvas

1876 Portrait of Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich  
oil on canvas 86 x 68 cm

1876 Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov 
oil on canvas 59 x 49 cm

1876 Portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova 
oil on canvas 226 x 148 cm

1876 Portrait of sculptor Mark Matveevitch Antokolsky

1876 Village Yard in France 
watercolour 24 x 31.5 cm

1876 Portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova 
oil on canvas 226 x 148 cm

1877 Portrait of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov 
oil on canvas 75 x 55 cm

1878 Portrait of Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov

1878 Nikolay Nekrasov in the period of his "Last Songs" 
oil on canvas 105 x 89 cm

1878 D. I. Mendeleev oil on canvas

1878 Portrait of the artist Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko