Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (1839-1915) left a significant artistic legacy.
He worked as a genre painter, was a master of history painting and was also a skilled landscape artist.
However, portraiture was definitive in his oeuvre.
The artist's son, the famous Silver Age art critic, Sergei Makovsky, considered that his father's legacy included 'very many portraits, more than all those by Kramskoi, Repin and Serov put together'.
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