Pyotr Vereshchagin

Pyotr Vereshchagin
Пётр Петрович Верещагин
Pyotr Vereshchagin
(artist unknown)
Born(1834-01-14)January 14, 1834
DiedJanuary 16, 1886(1886-01-16) (aged 52)
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1873)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1865)
Known forPainting

Pyotr Petrovich Vereshchagin (Russian: Пётр Петрович Верещагин; 14 January 1834/36 in Perm – 16 January 1886 in Perm) was a Russian landscape and cityscape painter in the Academic style. He was the first to paint plein-air in the wilderness of the Urals.