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Vassily Vereshchagin, attr, Reitender Kosake A man riding at a rapid gallop with a fur cap and a tablet in his hand, inscribed "Our Congratulation to the best Papa of England Germany and the Caucasus the children" in pen and ink, watercolour pencil drawing, recess in the back of the frame and inscribed "Wereschagin original" in lead, paper browned and smoothed fold lines, matted and framed behind glass, mat cut-out approx. 15.5 x 21 cm. Artist information: Russian Василий Васильевич Верещагин, also Vasilij Vasil'evič Vereščagin, Russian war painter (1842 Cherepovets to 1904 off Port Arthur), from 1853 in the naval cadet corps in St Petersburg, 1860-63 studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, lived in Paris for a year and studied at the École nationale superieure des beaux-arts under Jean-Léon Gérome, 1867 participant in an expedition to Turkestan, from 1870 resident in Munich, 1874 extended journey to India, witnessed the Battle of the Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War, which had a great influence on him and he decided to use his art to propagate the pacifist way of life, 1881-82 travelled to Vienna and Berlin and repeatedly to India, 1902 travelled to the USA, Cuba and the Philippines, from 1903 to Japan, on the return journey the ship sank in the Yellow Sea, the art museum in the Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv bears his name, works in numerous museums and exhibitions, source: Wikipedia.

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Vassily Vereshchagin, attr, Reitender Kosake A man riding at a rapid gallop with a fur cap and a tablet in his hand, inscribed "Our Congratulation to the best Papa of England Germany and the Caucasus the children" in pen and ink, watercolour pencil drawing, recess in the back of the frame and inscribed "Wereschagin original" in lead, paper browned and smoothed fold lines, matted and framed behind glass, mat cut-out approx. 15.5 x 21 cm. Artist information: Russian Василий Васильевич Верещагин, also Vasilij Vasil'evič Vereščagin, Russian war painter (1842 Cherepovets to 1904 off Port Arthur), from 1853 in the naval cadet corps in St Petersburg, 1860-63 studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, lived in Paris for a year and studied at the École nationale superieure des beaux-arts under Jean-Léon Gérome, 1867 participant in an expedition to Turkestan, from 1870 resident in Munich, 1874 extended journey to India, witnessed the Battle of the Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War, which had a great influence on him and he decided to use his art to propagate the pacifist way of life, 1881-82 travelled to Vienna and Berlin and repeatedly to India, 1902 travelled to the USA, Cuba and the Philippines, from 1903 to Japan, on the return journey the ship sank in the Yellow Sea, the art museum in the Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv bears his name, works in numerous museums and exhibitions, source: Wikipedia.

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