Fungi Sergei Ivanovich (1822-1893)

Sense of purpose and a great performance to fully offset the relatively late arrival of Sergei Ivanovich Gribkova in painting.

Born in the town of Kasimov Ryazan province, S. Gribkov only in 1844 began teaching art skill in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Students he received in 1852 from the Academy of Fine Arts for a picture Spaniard, praying in the church the title of class artist, but remained in the walls of the school until 1856. Worked in the future in a variety of genres, creating in each of them a considerable number of paintings.

Work on everyday topics combined with the artist's paintings of historical portraits side by side at the time of writing, illustrated with works of literature. Here's a selection of works created by the artist: "The Laundress", "boy with a cell", "schoolboy with a dog", "Dnepr Kyivlyanyn swims under Besenyos arrows", "shear a sheep farmer," "Woman at the Well," "The Cat and the Chef" "The quarrel Ivan Ivan Nikiforovichem," "Portrait of Dr. NE Mazurina," "Dinner inspector", "Portrait of NA Mosolov", "Harvest Festival", "Farewell to recruit", "Xenia Godunov" " Grandmother's chest "," festive day official "," Bless the bride "," Hide and Seek ".

In the last years of his life long enough SI Fungi worked on a number of paintings of churches in Moscow (Paraskeva, Archangel Michael Ovchinnikov, St. Nicholas on Maroseika) and the Cathedral in Kursk.