Nikolai Fyodorovich Smolin (1888 - 1962)

Nikolai Fyodorovich Smolin

Nikolai Fyodorovich Smolin (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Смолин) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a portrait painter.

Throughout his career, Nikolai Smolin painted landscapes, still lifes, and paintings with topical subjects on historical and domestic themes, but he became most famous for his portraits. When creating them, the artist combined realism with the impressionist school of his teacher Nikolai Fechin.