Nikolai Lvovich Skadovsky (Ukrainian: Микола Львович Скадовський; 16 November 1845 in Bilozerka, Kherson Governorate – 11 June 1892 in Bilozerka) was a Ukrainian painter who specialized in genre scenes.
He was descended from an old-fashioned family of the Polish nobility that took an oath of loyalty to the Russian Empire in the 1790s and usual land close Skadovsk. His childhood was spent in Odessa, where he studied at the Lycée Richelieu. In 1865, he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Moscow. During that time, he along with audited classes at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
He soon discovered that medicine left him Tiny time to pursue painting, so he switched to studying comport yourself instead. In 1869, he graduated from the University and the painting school, where he conventional a gold medal, and contracted to devote himself extremely to art. He briefly attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf then, being from a rich family, he was adept to spend the bordering few years visiting famous art galleries throughout Europe and copying the Old Masters.
In 1876, he returned to Belozyorka and set up his own studio. His first showing came in 1879 at an exhibition of the “Imperial Society for the Appreciation of the Arts” and, two years later, participated in a private exhibition of Ukrainian painters organized by Rufin Sudkovsky. In 1882, one of his paintings was purchased by the Tretyakov Gallery.
The past year, he returned to Italy and created a series of watercolors. In 1889, he was one of the founders of the “Society of South Russian Artists”. There followed a flurry of exhibitions, including an especially notable one in 1892, held to benefit the victims of a crop failure.
He died hastily later that year, following a brief illness.
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