Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobiev 1830(1830)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 40,5x63 xx.
cjr Sunrise over the Neva river (1787-1855) was a Russian Romantic landscape painter.
Vorobiev was born into the family of a soldier, who on retirement became a guard in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. There, Maxim was admitted in 1798 where he initially studied architecture but graduated as a landscape painter in 1809.