Pavel Fedotov is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Pavel Fedotov as Russian artist (1815-1852).
Pavel Fedotov was born at Moscow in 1815. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at The First Moscow Cadet Corps.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as artist, painter and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is realism.
His best-known work is Major's marriage proposal. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Pavel Fedotov died in 1852, aged 37. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Major's marriage proposal
- Movement: realism
