The lace-maker - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1823) Oil on canvas

Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf. In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official...