movement death_date death_place birth_place citizenship imagesize training nationality field birth_date image article_title name
realism 20 august 1971 leningrad , russian sfsr , soviet union bezhetsk , tver governorate , russian empire soviet union 200px repin institute of arts russian painting , graphics , art teaching 21 august 1894 samokhvalov-alexander-nikolaevich-17w . jpg alexander nikolayevich samokhvalov
 alexander nikolayevich samokhvalov
alexander nikolayevich samokhvalov

alexander nikolayevich samokhvalov -lrb- ; 21 august 1894 - 20 august 1971 -rrb- was a soviet russian painter , watercolorist , graphic artist , illustrator , art teacher and honored arts worker of the rsfsr , who lived and worked in leningrad .
he was a member of the leningrad branch of union of artists of russian federation , and was regarded as one of the founders and brightest representatives of the leningrad school of painting , most famous for his genre and portrait painting .
