Portrait of the Photographer Andrey Denier by Ivan Kramskoy (1883). In October 1853, aged sixteen, Ivan left his native village and after much travelling arrived in St Petersburg. Help finally came his way when he was employed by a visiting photographer who employed him to work as a colour correction artist. During these early years Ivan showed a great interest in and a talent for drawing but lacked the support of family and friends to follow his dream of becoming an artist. He attended the local school but, at the age of twelve, when is father died, he was unable to continue his education. He was the third son of a town council clerk of the municipal duma. My third look at portraiture exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery features the work of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy, the artist who was born into an impoverished lower middle social class family on June 8th 1837 in the village of Novaya Sotnya, near Ostrogozhsk, a town in south-west Russia. The portraiture of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy Russian Stamp from 2012 celebrating 175th anniversary of Kramskoy’s birth
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