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DEATH: 1911 SEROV
^ Died on 22 November 1911: Valentin Alexandrovitch Serov, Russian painter specialized in portraits born on 07 January 1865.
—  Serov was born into the family of a famous Russian composer Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (11 Jan 1820 – 20 Jan 1871 Gregorian). In 1872-73 the little boy with his widowed mother, née Bergman, lived in Munich, where he had lessons from the artist K. Kepping. In 1874, they moved to Paris, where Valentin regularly visited the studio of Ilya Repin, who was very fond of the little boy. In 1875, the Serovs came to live at Abramtsevo, the estate of the industrial tycoon Savva Mamontov, and the cultural center of the time, where artists, musicians and actors were always welcome.
      Valentin grew up in an atmosphere of constant creativity, which characterized the Mamontovs’ household. He was lucky in getting a professional education from early childhood from the best Russian artists, and he soon showed himself to be a remarkably precocious draughtsman. He would catch the likeness of a model often more quickly and surely than the older artists in the ‘facetious drawing competitions’, which were so much a part of the gay and idyllic life of Abramtsevo. At the age of 15 Serov entered Academy of Arts in the class of professor Pavel Tchistykov. There he met his lifelong friend Vladimir Derviz. His first exhibited works Girl with Peaches. Portrait of Vera Mamontova. (1887) and Girl in the Sunlight. Portrait of Maria Simonovich. (1888) were a sensation. Critics called them a new word in painting. At the time of painting them Serov was unfamiliar with the works of the French Impressionists, yet he came very close to Renoir in these luminous, sunny, splendidly composed portraits.
      Serov tried himself in different genres: he was a beautiful landscape painter in a more sensuous and less nostalgic vein than another teacher of his, Isaac Levitan: Pond in Abramtsevo. (1886), The Overgrown Pond. Domotcanovo. (1888), Village. (1898), Watermill in Finland. (1902). Serov’s historical paintings are also of value and interest: Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Petrovna Riding to Hounds. (1900), Peter the Great. (1907).
      Serov became the most successful and brilliant portraitist in Russia of the 1890s and first decade of the 20th century. His most famous portraits are Portrait of the Actress Maria Yermolova. (1905), Portrait of Henrietta Girshman. (1907), Portrait of Ida Rubenstein. (1910), Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova. (1911).
He traveled much, participated in exhibitions in Russia and abroad. In 1897-1909, Serov taught in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He was a superb technical master of the many media in which he practiced and that too did not fail to impress his students. Among his pupils were N.N. Sapunov, M.I. Mashkov, P.V. Kuznetsov, N.P. Krymov, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, C.Y. Sudeykin, K.F. Yuon and others. In 1903, he was elected the academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
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Self-Portrait (1883)

Died on a 22 November:
1907 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German artist born on 08 February 1876.— [She was not her moder's sohn but her tochter] — LINKSOld Peasant Woman (1905, 79x58cm)
1890 Frank Buchser, Swiss artist born on 15 August 1828. — Village Street in Woodstock, Virginia (1867) — Landscape near Scarborough (1874)
1843 Pieter Frans de Noter, Belgian artist born on 23 February 1779. — [à noter: pas de Noter dans l'internet]
1822 Peter Paul Joseph Noël, Belgian artist born on 11 April 1789.
1781 Jan Ekels I, Dutch artist born on 21 November 1724.
1726 Antonio-Domenico Gabbiani, Italian artist born on 13 February 1652. — The Rape of Ganymede (1700)
1658 Abraham van Cuylenborch (or Cuylenburg), Dutch artist born sometime between 1610 and 1620.

Born on a 22 November:
1864 Wilhelm List, Austrian artist who died on 09 February 1918.
1860 Cecilio Pla y Gallardo, pintor español.
1788 Albertus-Jonas Brandt, Dutch artist who died on 1821.
1787 Anthony-Vandyke Dopley Fielding, British artist who died on 03 March 1855. — LINKSA View in Sussex (1834, 23x34cm)
1648 Antoine Pierre Patel II, French artist who died on 15 March 1707. — Relative? of Pierre Patel [1605-1676]?
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