Nikolay Koshelev

Nikolay Koshelev
Portrait by Ivan Kramskoi, 1866
Born	1840 Arzamas, Russia
Died	1918 Petrograd, Russia

Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ко́шелев) (May 3, 1840-1918) was a Russian painter.

Koshelev was born in the town of Arzamas, in Nizhni Novgorod oblast and the Stupin School of Painting. Being poor, Koshelev could not afford to enter it, and instead became an apprentice of a local Church painter. In 1860, Koshelev travelled to St. Petersburg and studied at the Saint Petersburg School of Art. In a notable early collaboration with Ivan Kramskoi, he worked on the interior of the Salvator Cathedral. Koshelev began by painting portraits and genre art, but soon transferred mainly to historical painting. In 1873, he was made an academician and five years later a professor at the Academy. Koshelev generalized himself with the Russian academic camp of painting more so than with the association of travelling exhibitioners. In 1902, he moved to Brazil to paint the interiors of the Russian Orthodox churches located there. A set of paintings by Koshelev depicting the passion of Jesus are presented at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Jerusalem.

References

• Russian Painting - Vladimir Fiala

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Name	Koshelev, Nikolay
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Date of birth	1840
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Date of death	1918
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