Konstantin Makovsky?

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Сообщение от Joan Chong

If I understand you correctly , it is likely that this work was painted by the great Russian Wanderers , whose name it is signed ?

Chance is always there, but the disadvantages that I mentioned earlier it is reduced.
First of all coloristic . Lethargy color typical for beginners who can not be primed , do Imprimatur and have bad paint. The result - color lethargy .
Further, no hardness of the hand that is expressed as a preparatory drawing - look at the background ... For example, an experienced artist easily holds the line segments of equal thickness brush. The more able to build an architectural space .
IMHO. Most likely it is a replica or copy of the training , make a good artist at the beginning , but not master. About Wizard talk appropriate since delivered workshops artistic tasks , but with them the artist failed.

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Yes , color, sonority come with age ! - Who was the author of whatever scenes, he is a good master! Shapes in nature , mimicry, proportsii.Da , and the prospects are not "Chinese " , so say hudozh.o back lane - ve . The backdrop is simply not registered, did not , you see .
I do not know about Makovsky , although there are all sorts and stripes and periods in artist.
To understand what kind of people are depicted : in general or on duty prosit.Vysoky butler clearly not similar .

[Joan Chong]

Сообщение от Sanych

would understand what kind of people depicted

Note the position of the hands of these gentlemen, their gestures they create outlines symbolic cross in the center of the composition.
Probably Russian Rosicrucians?

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Help to establish the true author.
There fragment nipped signature.
Who would have to sign a picture like this?