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Harlamoff, Alexej
(Born 1842, Died 1922) |
| Painter. Russian. Like many Russian artists
in the second half of the 1800s, Alexej Harlamoff left Russia to establish
a painting career in Paris. He first attended the Academy of the Fine Arts
in Saint Petersburg, where he demonstrated a liking for Rembrandt
and frequently copied his works. His career while in Russia seems to have
been successful since, according to an 1892 biography of artists in Paris,
Harlamoff had "painted the portraits of many distinguished members
of . . . Russian aristocracy. Harlamoff's chief fame however, resulted from his idyllic portraits of children and young girls. These pictures sometimes included images of maidens knitting or arranging bouquets. Harlamoff was a regular contributor to the French Salon and received a second-class medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. |