MAKOVSKY KONSTANTIN 1839-1915 OIL ON BOARD LADY PORTRAIT. Image size 35cm by 28cm or 13.77in by 11.02in. Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915). "I have not buried their God-given talent in the ground, but not used it in so far as to what could. I too fond of life, and it prevented me from fully their art ". Thus ends my brief autobiography, written in 1910 tomemorate 50 years of his artistic activities, a professor of painting Konstantin Makovsky. Today the name of Makovsky will be remembered more works genre painter in Moscow, Vladimir Makovsky, and only then - his elder brother Constantine, the representative of the so-called "pozdneakademicheskoy painting. Meanwhile, in the second half of the XIX century glory Konstantin Makovsky, and in Russia and abroad was certainly much higher popularity of Vladimir Makovsky, and other artists democratic direction. 80-90-s of the XIX century paintings to. Makovsky on subjects from ancient history, . performed easily, . sweeping and flowery, . in particular its countless custom portraits of the aristocracy and high bourgeoisie, . were almost the standard of artistic taste for various strata of Russian society,. Reputation of the artist was so high that realistic painting had, so her criticism of the beginning of XX century, to assert their aesthetic ideals in the tense struggle against the "power of the famous virtuoso of the brush and Baloven Society. This struggle has ended so well and neglect Makovsky so firmly established in the history of art that now have to "protect" the artist from the one-sided view. In its formation Arts Makovsky has experienced aplex effect, itbined the features of the Moscow and St. Petersburg school of painting, the experience Perov and heritage K. Briullov. Ultimately, all these elements have been transformed into a broad, spectacular, consistently attractive "style of Konstantin Makovsky's" always the same regardless of the subject image. Makovsky was the eldest son in the family of the famous Moscow Art activist and amateur artist Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky. Father of the future of the artist - one of the founders of a real class, served as the basis for the future of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture - was friendly with K. Bryullov, VA. Tropinin, SK Zaryanko. Not surprisingly, all children Yegor Ivanovich: daughter Alexandra, the sons of Constantine, Nikolai and Vladimir, brought up in the spirit of love for art, influenced by his father, scholar and enthusiast, an artist. "Those that came out of me, I feel obligated itself not the academy, not the professors, but only my father," - wrote in his declining years Makovsky.. In the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, where Makovsky received in 1851, he learned easily and successfully, getting all the possible rewards. Among the professors who taught here were MI Scotti, AN Mokritskiy, SK Zaryanko - disciples and followers K. Briullov. They may have instilled in the artist that "romantic en