Feodor Petrovich Tchoumakov - Artist Info

About Feodor Petrovich Tchoumakov

Name variants

Fedor Chumakov, Theodore Tchoumakoff
  • Biography

    Fiedor Petrovich CHUMAKOV 1823 Petersburg -1899 Paris Historical painter and portraitist, an outstanding representative of the academic style in the second half of the 19th century. He studied at the Petersburg Academy with Basin and Briullów. In 1850 he went to Italy for two years. In 1852 he obtained the title of academician. In 1853 he left for France, where in 1859 he settled in Paris.

    He exhibited regularly in Parisian salons and in St. Petersburg. If his paintings were bought by the French government and the family of the Czar. He painted images of the subject s historic s, biblical and generic. In the later years, he dealt almost exclusively with portraits. Fas c was then inspired by the works of Jean-Baptiste Greuze . The ...

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