Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova - Artist Info

About Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova

Name variants

Eugeievna Zenaide Serebriakoff, Sinaida Evgenjewna Serebrjakova, Zinaida Evgenevna Serebrjakova, Zynaida Evgenievna Serebryakova
  • Biography

    Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) was among the first female Russian painters of distinction.

    Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families.

    She belonged to the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a famous architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a famous painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. Her father, Yevgeny Nikolayevich Lanceray, was a well-known sculptor, and her mother, who was Alexandre Benois' sister, was good at drawing. One of Zinaida's brothers, Nikolay Yevgenyevich Lanceray, ...

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