Andrei Alexeevich Redkovsky

Andrei Alexeevich Redkovsky is remembered as one of the most skilled watercolorists of the late 19th century. He attended agricultural school before he attended art school, and his passion for the countryside remained visible in his many landscape paintings. Redkovsky visited classes at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture and he officially enrolled at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, where he excelled in drawing classes and was soon named artist of the first rank. His works were collected by numerous wealthy patrons, and he soon developed a reputation for his precise brushstrokes and his intense palette of paints, which were often mistaken for oils. Redkovsky traveled extensively throughout his career, and he reportedly found inspiration in the city life of both St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as in the countryside of Finland and the Caucusus. The present lot was likely commissioned by one of Redkovsky's patrons in St. Petersburg; it accurately represents the aristocratic decor of the late 1800s.