Background
Mr. Bronnikov was born in Shadrinsk, Kurgan, Russian Federation, on September 29, 1827, in the family of iconographer Andrey Bronnikov.
Imperial Academy of Arts.
Fyodor Bronnikov, self-portrait.
Mr. Bronnikov was born in Shadrinsk, Kurgan, Russian Federation, on September 29, 1827, in the family of iconographer Andrey Bronnikov.
Fyodor Bronnikov's original art education was under the leadership of his father. In 1843 he arrived in St. Petersburg. In 1845 he joined the Imperial Academy of Arts and was engaged in the class of historical painting of Alexey Tarasovich Markov. In 1851 he was awarded the small and large silver medal for a portrait from life. He graduated in 1853 and was awarded a stipend to study in Italy for his graduation painting, The Mother of God. Released from the Academy with the rank of a class artist and the right of a pensioner's to travel abroad. From 1843 Mr. Bronnikov attended the workshop of E.E. Bernardski, mastering the woodcuts technique.
In 1854 Mr. Bronnikov settled in Rome and established his own studio on Via Vittoria, near the Villa Borghese. He painted a wide variety of canvases, including landscapes, village scenes, genre scenes, historical works and, of course, portraits of the city's notable citizens. His health was poor, so he remained there after his stipend expired, to take advantage of the warm climate.
He paid a long visit home from 1863 to 1865. He came into contact with a group of dissident artists who would later be known as the Peredvizhniki. The group inspired him to paint a series of genre works on peasant life. Later, he became a member of the group and regularly sent paintings from Italy to show in their exhibitions. Fyodor Bronnikov participated in a number of international art exhibitions: in London (1872), Philadelphia (1876), the World Exhibitions in Vienna (1873), Paris (1878), Chicago (1893) etc. From 1874 to 1902 he exhibited his works in The Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions, as well as the Moscow Society of Art Lovers. During this period he created one of his best-known works: The Cursed Field (1878), an indictment of slavery.
He also worked in the field of monumental painting. Mr. Bronnikov participated in the painting of the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris, the Russian embassy church in Copenhagen, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Reading the newspaper
Martyr on a circus ring
Italian woman with a basket of flowers
Cleaning corpses during an epidemic
Consecration of the herm
Portrait of an old man
Reading the the death sentence Trazey Pet
Palermo
Bellagio
In the Roman Baths
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
View of Lake Como
The Oath of Brutus before the statue
Portrait of the artist's father
The Catholic Mass
Self-portrait
Baptism of Prince Vladimir
Apelles chooses nudes
The Garden Arbor
August with family
Robbery
Portrait of A.P. Bogoliubov
Portrait of an old man
The lady in white
Buildings
Wayfarer
Fan
Portrait of a Woman in White
Lover of painting
The Italian Tavern
Self-portrait
The Dying Gladiator
Painters in the hall of a rich man
Portrait of Elena Grigoriyevna Tolstaya
Self-portrait of the artist in youth
Cursed field. The place of execution in ancient Rome. Crucified slave
The head of an old man
In the chapel
The head of the Apostle Peter
The Catholic Mass
Carnival in Rome
Horatius reads before Maecenas
Murder scene
The Roman Baths
Italian Courtyard
Street in Italian town
Street in Italian town
Private baths in Pompeii
Rebel
Square in Rome
Portrait of an old man
Abandoned
Dog Grooming in children portraits
Children on the streets of Pompeii
Bellagio
Capuchin
Judas
Self-portrait
Mosaicists before the court three in Venice
The old man reading a letter
Masquerade
The old beggar
Rest on the lake
Mosaicists before the court three in Venice in the second half of the XVI century
Portrait of an Italian ballerina Virginia Zucchi
Portrait of an old man in a crimson dress
Exile in front of the grave
Italian peasant on the barrel
Sick artist
Self-portrait
At the reception of the Pope
Meeting of princess
Portrait of a Girl Evdokia Kuznetsova
Backstage of the circus
Street in Italy
A fisherman hunging fishing nets
The Return of Ulysses to his home
Portrait of the Artist K.D. Flavitsky
Servant of Cardinal
Fragment of the interior
A boy on a donkey
Entering the arena
Sick man at the walls of a Catholic monastery
Street in Italy
Landscape with Tree
Before entering the arena
Portrait of a Girl
In the family
Roadsides shrine
Fees for the crown
Portrait of a Lady with a book
The monk and the beggar
The lady at the morning toilet
Rome. Italian Courtyard
At a roadside tavern
Self-portrait
Italian Courtyard
Murder scene
Italian woman
Portrait of the artist's mother
Landscape with ruins
Street in Italy
Pythagoreans celebrate sunrise
Parable of Lazarus
The head of Judas
Completed scores
Nude wash
Since 1876 Fyodor Bronnikov was a member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions.