The Room of the Russian School in the New Hermitage

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The hall of Russian painting in the Hermitage is next to the gallery of French painting. The majority of the paintings in the Russian hall were Neoclassical biblical compositions and landscapes with ancient buildings painted in Italy and Palestine.

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The Room of the Russian School in the New Hermitage

About the Artist

Edward Petrovich Hau

1807 – 1887

Russian painter, born in Revel (today Tallinn, Estonia). In 1830-32 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He specialised in watercolour, and in 1854 he became academician of watercolour painting. The artist executed watercolours of the interiors of the most famous buildings in Moscow (the Grand Kremlin Palace), St. Petersburg (the Winter Palace and the Hermitage) and Gatchina (the Great Palace).

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