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Hendrick Avercamp

On January 6, 2026 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch, january 27

Hendrick Avercamp, January 27, 1585–May 15, 1634, was a Dutch painter and draftsman known for winter landscapes. Born in Amsterdam and raised in Kampen, he was deaf and unable to speak from childhood.

His formal training is not documented with certainty. He probably studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born painter Pieter Isaacks and was influenced by Flemish landscape traditions before returning to Kampen, where he spent most of his career. His nephew Barent Avercamp continued his manner of painting winter scenes.

Avercamp’s paintings and drawings are held in major collections including the Rijksmuseum, the National Gallery in London, the Mauritshuis, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and other European and American museums.

Arkhip Kuindzhi

On January 6, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 27, Ukrainian

Arkhip Kuindzhi, January 27, 1842–July 24, 1910, was a Ukrainian landscape painter of Pontic Greek ancestry, born near Mariupol in the Russian Empire. He received limited formal schooling, traveled to Feodosia intending to study with Ivan Aivazovsky, worked with Aivazovsky’s student Adolf Fessler, and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg as a non-matriculated student in 1868.

Kuindzhi exhibited with the Peredvizhniki during the 1870s and became known for landscapes structured around strong effects of light, color, and atmosphere. He ceased public exhibition after 1882 but continued painting. He became a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1892 and directed its landscape workshop from 1894 to 1897; his students included Arkady Rylov, Nicholas Roerich, and Konstantin Bogaevsky.

In his final years Kuindzhi helped establish the Society of Artists that later bore his name and left much of his estate to support artists. He died in Saint Petersburg. Principal public collections of his work include the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.