Alexander Bogomolov-Romanovich

Alexander Bogomolov-Romanovich (1830–1867), Russian painter, draughtsman. Studied under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Lived and worked in Switzerland. Academician of landscape painting. Painted portraits and worked in Lithuania. Died of consumption in St Petersburg.
Born: 1830
Died: 1867, St Petersburg

Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Sophron Bogomolov-Romanovich (1830). Studied landscape painting under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–57). Awarded a minor silver medal (1853), major silver medal (1854), minor gold medal (1855) and a major gold medal and three-year foreign fellowship (1857). Visited Berlin (1857) and Savoy (1858). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Geneva (1858–59). Fourteenth-class artist (1859), academician of landscape painting (1862). Painted a portrait of Ivan Turgenev (1854) and worked in Kovno Province in Lithuania (1861–63). Led a dissolute lifestyle (from 1850s) and contracted consumption (1860s). Died in a hospital in St Petersburg and buried at the Smolensk Cemetery (1867). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1850s).

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