Lomtev Nikolai Petrovich (1816-1859)

The last two decades of the first half of the XIX century was a time of prosperity in the domestic academic painting. It employs many talented and well-trained wizard. Although the canons of academic and restricted largely a manifestation of the individual characteristics of even great artists. Nikolai Petrovich (A.-according to other sources) Lomtev never belonged to the masters of the right wing Russian painters (even the exact middle name of the artist, we do not know). Was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1845, for his film "Angels proclaim the heavenly punishment Sodom and Gomorrah" was not so hot title class artist.

 Yet N. Lomtev was a true original and a painter. Its small size paintings, executed in accordance with the traditions of the time on religious or historical subjects (eg, "the sermons of Savonarola in Florence," "The Apostle Andrew the First-Called hoisting the cross on the hills of Kiev"), different and romantic elements in the performance, and it is an individual palette.