Reitern Yevgraf R. (1794-1865)

Initially Yevgraf R. Reitern devoted himself to military service, which was not surprising in the years of large and small military campaigns of Napoleon in Europe in the first decade of the XIX century. However, twenty Evgraf Reitern, which was by then a lieutenant colonel, seized with a passionate desire to become an artist. Painting he has devoted a large part of the subsequent life.

ER Reitern painted portraits, icons, everyday scenes. Great fame earned him a full expression of academic painting "Abraham brings Isaac as a sacrifice." In 1835, for his work "Portrait of Vasily Zhukovsky," and two paintings of family life, the artist was awarded the title "assigned" to the Academy. Soon he gets and highly-valued and brings certain advantages title of Academician.

Unusual fact of the artist's life - his work ER Reitern wrote with his left hand. Not often found among painters granted.