CZERKIESI
Watercolor, paper; 44 x 54 cm (light frame)
Signed p.d.: К. Филиппов
Konstatin Nikolaevich FILIPPOV
1830 - 1878 Yalta
Russian battle painter, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts. For eight years (1850-1858) he studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts with G. Willewalde professor B.P. Villevelde. He was sent to the Crimean War as a war draftsman. In 1858 he received the title of chudoznik of the Academy. After a year's stay in Warsaw, where he painted battle paintings commissioned by the governor, he went abroad. He settled in Rome, then Paris. In 1864 he stayed in the Caucasus. Again in 1871-73, accompanying the journey of Tsar Alexander II. He spent the last years of his life on the southern coast of Crimea .
