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Vasily Polenov

1844 - 1927

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Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Поленов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. His vision of life was summarized as following: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Polenov is the 826th most popular painter (up from 837th in 2019), the 748th most popular biography from Russia (up from 788th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Polenov ranks 826 out of 2,023. Before him are James Gillray, Henri Gervex, Ford Madox Brown, Tina Blau, Marie Bracquemond, and Konstantin Korovin. After him are Evelyn De Morgan, Juan de Valdés Leal, Christian Boltanski, Hercules Seghers, Hans Gude, and Olga Boznańska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Vasily Polenov ranks 43. Before him are Thomas Eakins, Minna Canth, Mihály Munkácsy, Victorine Meurent, Louis Riel, and Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Garret Hobart, Eduard Strasburger, Anna Lea Merritt, Jenny Longuet, Joshua Slocum, and Lujo Brentano. Among people deceased in 1927, Vasily Polenov ranks 55. Before him are Dawid Janowski, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Stanisław Przybyszewski, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hermann Abert, and Louise Abbéma. After him are Ion I. C. Brătianu, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Ottavio Bottecchia, Louise Catherine Breslau, and Oscar Swahn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 748 out of 3,761. Before him are Faina Ranevskaya (1896), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Andrianov (1952), Konstantin Korovin (1861), Andrey Kurkov (1961), and Lucien Olivier (1838). After him are Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), and Tatiana Samoilova (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Polenov ranks 30. Before him are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Jean Béraud (1849), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Alexei Savrasov (1830), and Konstantin Korovin (1861). After him are Vasily Tropinin (1776), Eero Järnefelt (1863), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), Angelina Beloff (1879), Orest Kiprensky (1782), and Grigoriy Myasoyedov (1834).

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