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Andrei M. Matveyev (1701-1739), was another
Russian painter who distinguished himself during the first half of the 18th
century, when foreigners dominated the arts in the new Russian capital.
Matveyev received a scholarship to go to Holland to study painting. Although he
lived a short life, he absorbed the Western-European style better than anybody
else. Of interest is his self-portrait with his wife, while the big canvas
"The Battle at Kulikovo," on exhibit at the Russian Museum in
Leningrad, still needs to be credited; to Nikitin, or Matveyev, or perhaps
somebody else. Here is a landscape.
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