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Alexey Yakovlevich Voloskov (Russian: Алексей Яковлевич Волосков; 13 March 1822, Rzhev - 19 September 1882, Rzhev) was a Russian painter; primarily of landscapes.

Biography

He was born to a family of merchants. His great uncle, Terentiy Voloskov (1729-1806), was the inventor of an early astronomical clock that showed phases of the moon and calculated dates for the church calendar, among other things.

A childhood illness (probably polio) left him unable to walk without the aid of crutches. In 1837, he began auditing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts; notably, the landscape painting workshops of Maxim Vorobyov. In 1843, he was awarded a silver medal and was granted the title of "Free Artist" in 1845. He became a member of the academy in 1851 and used his position there to help struggling young artists.

Later, he lived in Ukraine, where he executed commissions for the philanthropist, Grigory Galagan [ru] and other members of the local nobility. In 1863, after an illness, he returned to Rzhev and married the daughter of a local priest. Not quite able to support his family by painting, he served as a notary and was the agent for a Moscow insurance company.

A major retrospective was held at the Russian Museum in 2006–2007.

Selected paintings

• Kachanivka
• The Night Sea at Vyborg
• At the Tea Table
  (The Tarnovsky Family)
• View of Rzhev

References

1. "ARIFMOMETR: An Archaeology of Computing in Russia" by Georg Trogemann, Alexander Nitussov and Wolfgang Ernst Pgs.10-11.
2. ^ Brief biography @ Книжный Мир/Rzhev BlogSpot.
3. ^ Biographical notes @ RusArtNet.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Alexey Voloskov at Wikimedia Commons

• 1822 births
• 1882 deaths
• 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
• Male painters from the Russian Empire
• Landscape painters from the Russian Empire
• People from Rzhev
• 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire