Grigory Myasoyedov

Painter, theatrical designer. Studied under Timoleon Carl von Neff and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–62). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–69). Lived in Florence (1864), Paris (1865), Spain (1866) and Italy (1867–69). Returned to Russia (1869). Academician (1870), full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893), resigned in protest at the teaching methods (1902). Member of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1862), founding member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870). Married the pianist Ekaterina Krivtsova (1861), but separated and married the artist Xenia Ivanova (1881) when she was pregnant with his son Ivan Myasoyedov (1881–1953), whom he later suspected of not being his child and gave away to Alexander Kiselyov (1881–89), for which Ilya Repin depicted him as Ivan the Terrible in his painting Ivan the Terrible Killing his Son Ivan (1885). Lived at his estate of Pavlenki and designed the curtain and sets for the theatre in nearby Poltava (from late 1880s). Contributed to exhibitions (from the 1860s). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1871–1913).