Lev Lvovich Kamenev

Kamenev was born in 1834. Soon afterwards, his father, a small trader, moved with the family to Astrakhan, where Lev studied at the local grammar school, but did not finish it because his father was in need of assistance, and took him to own shop. A passion for painting with Lev Kamenev saw the grandfather of Konstantin Korovin, who arranged for him to own an office and gave him five thousand rubles for admission to the Art school in St. Petersburg.[1]

In 1854, aged twenty-one years, he went to Moscow and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with the coming celebrities such as Ivan Shishkin and Vasily Perov, where he studied under the mentoring Karl Rabus, and after his death in 1857, under the mentoring Alexei Savrasov. In 1858 Kamenev was bestowed the title of the professional painter of the 3d degree and became a member of the Moscow Society of Amateurs of Arts, at the expense of it he departed for a two-year trip abroad for learning and mastery of Western European artists. Traveling to Germany and Switzerland, he carried out together with Ivan Shishkin.

The peak of Kamenev's career was in the 1860-70s, when his painting Winter Road became part of the Tretyakov collection. In 1869 for the painting Winter View from the Outskirts of Moscow and View from the Outskirts of Porechye he received the title of academician of the Academy of Arts landscape painting and became a member and one of the founders of The Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki). Between 1871-1884, Kamenev took part at the exhibitions of the Association. In 1886 Kamenev died in poverty and solitude.

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  Old Oak, 1859.
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  Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery near Zvenigorod, 1860s.
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  By the Dam, 1864.
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  Winter Road, 1866.
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  Moonlit Night on the River, 1870s.
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  Fog. Red Pond in Moscow in Autumn, 1871.
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  Forest, 1874.
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  View on the Kazanka River, 1875.