Mikhail Andreevich Sharonov (1881 - 1957)

Mikhail Andreevich Sharonov

Mikhail Andreevich Sharonov (Russian: Михаил Андреевич Шаронов) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and teacher.

As an artist, Mikhail Sharonov worked in the genres of portrait, landscape, still life and historical genre. He was also a professor and rector of the Kiev Art Institute. An important aspect of his life was art collecting; he amassed a significant collection of etchings by the Spanish artist Goya and donated 60 sheets from this collection to the Khanenko Museum in Kiev in 1941.