31. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
(1817 – 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter
painter who is considered one of the greatest
greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as
Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an
Armenian family in the Black Sea port of
Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based
there. Following his education at the Imperial
Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg,
Petersburg, Aivazovsky traveled to Europe and
and lived briefly in Italy in the early 1840s. He
He then returned to Russia and was appointed
appointed the main painter of the Russian Navy.
Navy.
(Wikipedia)
