Иван Павлович Похитонов (1850-23)

LearnFromMasters Needs Your Support: (EXCLUSIVE CONTENT) --- Ivan Pokhitonov: A collection of 128 paintings (HD) Description: “Ivan Pavlovitch Pokhitonov (27 January (8 February) 1850, in Matrionovka, Kherson Governorate – 23 December 1923, in Brussels) was a Russian and Ukrainian landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium. He was born on a large farm in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). His father was a retired military man who had received a title of nobility, was a member of the Kherson governing committee, supervised the local Zemstvo school and was an honorary magistrate. At the age of seven, he was already making copies of the Dutch engravings that decorated his home. In 1860, he became one of the first students at a new private boy’s academy in Yelisavetgrad. He later attended several other scho