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[SergeiSK]

Well ... Came the answer from the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, for which they thank you very much, because Museums do not always respond to correspondence issues.
A detailed, quoting it in full:

First, judging by the image of your work, it may well be Berkman and Vronsky, although without the original claim will not undertake, and of course, we are interested in this painting.
Secondly, your information about the artists are incomplete and not entirely accurate, so I am sending you a more detailed manuscript of a scientific catalog:

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Berkman, Jozef (Berkman Jozef)
1838, borough Volozhin Ashmyany County Vilna Province. -1919, Warsaw
Polish painter. Landscape.
He graduated from high school in Vilna, then joined the faculty of medicine in Moscow. Six months later he moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied at the natural-mathematical department of St. Petersburg University (1850 - 1860) and has also attended evening classes IAH. In 1861 he was arrested for taking part in a memorial service for victims of the Warsaw shootings, spent three months in the fortress. After his release he returned to Vilna. In 1862 he returned to St. Petersburg University, but in 1863, after learning about the beginning of the Polish uprising, threw 4 year Law School and joined the rebels. In the same year was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment. In 1865, he worked in Nerchinsk (Transbaikalia) on the silver mines. In 1866 he received for his intention to run for another 4 years of hard labor. Released by Manifesto 1866. Since 1870, after hard work was in exile in Irkutsk, where he opened with another exiled Polish artist S. Vronsky bad ¬ divine studio. He left Irkutsk in 1877, had moved to Nizhny Novgorod. In 1880 he moved to Libau. From 1884 to 1894 he lived in Warsaw, where he served as an accountant at the railway. Three years later supplemented arts education in Munich. From 1900 lived at Warsaw, some time in Vilna, engaging in public education. Member of Art Exhibitions in Irkutsk provincial gymnasium (1880-1881), exhibition of Irkutsk Charitable Society (1890), Urban Art Exhibition (Ikutsk. 1900) and others. In 1913 his paintings were exhibited in Lviv. Posted by a number of paintings from the life of exiled Poles in Siberia, a lot of sketches and paintings with views of Irkutsk.
TROIKA (Moscow highway). 1877
Oil on canvas. 62 x 83
Lower right: Iozef Berkman 1877
Admission: in 1937 (1943 - Dudin) gift NF Pokholkova. Usolye-Siberian.
                                                                                                               Well - 471
Exhibitions: in favor of Irkutsk committee to assist the families of militiamen, army conscripts. Irkutsk, 1915; Gifts Irkutsk Art Museum. IOHM. 1965; Russian painting from the collection IOHM. Novosibirsk, 2006
Literature: Gifts Irkutsk Art Museum. Exhibition Catalog. IOHM. 1966
Scenes at the Moscow highway in Siberia. History of The Moscow ¬ Who tract associated with trading activities of the Siberian merchants, on whose initiative he joined the central Russia with the Far East.
Rider with two horses (Moscow highway). 1877
Oil on canvas. 62,5 X 82,5
Lower right: Iozef Berkman 1877
Admission: in 1937 (1943 - Dudin) gift NF Pokholkova. Usolye-Siberian. M-472
Fair: Gifts Irkutsk Art Museum. IOHM. 1965
Literature: Gifts Irkutsk Art Museum. Exhibition Catalog. IOHM. 1966
Four. 1914
Oil on canvas. 84 x 156
Lower right: Iozef Berkman 1914 Wilno
Admission: in 1932, purchased in Irkutsk. F - 367

Berkman, S, Vronsky S.
SCP in Tunka valley. 1877
Oil on canvas. 65 x 83
Downstairs in the center: StWroski gory Berkman 1877. ?
Admission: in 1989 (post.N18-14353) from A. Andrulaytisa. Irkutsk. Well - 2180
Tunkinskaya Valley is located in the south of Buryatia. It is a continuation of the Baikal basin, the length of 200 km. Here Irkut river that flows into the river Angara. At the confluence of these rivers is the city of Irkutsk. From the north valley bounded by high Tunka range with sharply defined alpine relief, but with less steep slopes south of Hamar-Daban. Tunkinskaya valley is famous for its mineral springs. Among the most famous are the springs resorts Arshan, Nil Deserts, Pearls


Vronsky (VRONSKY), Stanislav (Stanislav Evgenievich)
WRONSKI Stanislaw
1840, Lublin (Lublin?) - 1898, Warsaw
Polish painter and graphic artist. Landscape. In 1854 he graduated from the Lublin district school in 1857 enrolled in the painting department at the Warsaw Fine Arts School. Eliminated from it, receive a transfer to the 4 th course (1861), as the school was closed. Active members of the liberation of the Polish uprising (1863-1864). He was arrested and sent to Siberia. Serving a prison on Petrovsky an iron factory (now Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky). Then he was transferred to the village on the river Sivakov. Ingoda, later transferred to the settlement in Darasun. Already in the Trans-Baikal area became known as a talented artist. From Darasun went to Chita, where he worked decorative painting (curtain and wings for amateur theater) and a few landscapes. Member of the "first public" agricultural and manufacturing, handicraft exhibitions (Irkutsk, 1868) and a similar exhibition in 1869. Since 1870 after the departure of hard labor he lived in Irkutsk. Together with the Polish artist Yu Berkmanom (see) opened an art studio. In the early 1870's commissioned by the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia NP Sinel'nikova (see) restored "Portrait of the Derzhavin" (see) and wrote on it Irkutsk winter landscape (according to the memoirs of his contemporary scientist B. Dybovskogo , who served as the reference (published in 1930 in Lviv). Dybovskaya recalled that the artist also wrote the scenery and the curtain for the Municipal Theater and also performed now for the altar of the Catholic church. He gave private lessons. From 1880 to 1885 taught art at the Irkutsk Technical School. He left Irkutsk in the second half of 1880. As an artist took part in expeditions VSOIRGO together with the Polish exiles, academics B. Dybovskaya, V. Godlevskii, geologists, and J. A. Chekanovsky Cherskii. Member urban exhibitions (1880-1881, 1883-1884 - Paintings and Graphics, 1890, 1900, 1910, etc.). In 1886 his paintings took part in the Fourth celebration on the occasion of the "day of conquest of Siberia." His work, he sent to exhibitions in Warsaw and published them in 1880 in the magazine Niva and the publication of "Picturesque Russia". In the second half of 1880 lived in St. Petersburg. Member of academic exhibitions 1887, 1888 and 1889., which has exhibited paintings and drawings depicting Siberian nature. In 1895 and 1896 participated in exhibitions in Krakow, introducing the Siberian landscape. Shortly before his death he returned to Warsaw. keeping memories of Vronsky, written by B. Dybovskaya (in his book on Siberia and Kamchatka - 1899 in the Polish edition of "Week" in 1900 in Lviv. In 1930 in Lviv opulikovany his memories of "The Diary of Dr. Benedykta Dybovskogo from year 1862 to year 1878 (published by national institutions named Ossolinska). They contain memories of the artist. works are in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nerchinsk in the Czech Republic and Poland. About him there is information in the Memorial Association of Friends of Art in Cracow. 1854-1904. Krakow. 1905. (In the book by FI Bulgakov's "Our artists" 1890 edition is referred to as the artist-lover. P.101)
Hamar-Daban. SIBIR.1874
Oil on canvas. 124 x 89
Bottom left: St.Wronski 1874.
Admission: 1924 from the Irkutsk department of public utilities. M-370
Literature: Artists of the USSR. Bibliographical dictionary //Art. M., 1972, v.2, s.355
MOUNTAIN Hamar-Daban. 1874
Oil on canvas. 75 x 115
Bottom left: S. Wronski 1874
Admission: 1924 from the village Zhilkino near Irkutsk. F - 368
Literature: Artists of the USSR. Bibliographical dictionary //Art. M., 1972, v.2, s.355
Tunka. 1876
Oil on canvas. 75 x 104,5
Bottom left: St. Wronski 1876
Admission: 1923 from the Irkutsk department of public utilities. F - 171
Literature: Artists of the USSR. Bibliographical dictionary //Art. M., 1972, v.2, s.355
Mountain landscape. 1891?
Oil on canvas. 80 x 103
The right is illegible signature and date.
Admission: in 1981 from the management culture of the Irkutsk region w - 1928
Literature: Artists of the USSR. Bibliographical dictionary //Art. M., 1972, v.2, s.355
VIEW IRKUTSK (background on the portrait the Derzhavin - see). Start 1870 w - 327

Best regards
Snytko Lyudmila - a specialist in Russian art.

And there was my idea to give his painting Irkutsk museum ... But that's really really want that picture was in a permanent exhibit. But do not think it will be, because by comparison with their existing paintings, it is weak. But would give ... Immediately sinful thought crept up - not "zamylyat" whether from me closer to London than to Irkutsk, I can not check

[SergeiSK]

Painting sold today.

[Sandro]

SergeiSK, so sell or give away?

[SergeiSK]

Сообщение от Sandro

so sold or donated?

Painting Sold. I bought a famous person who is in Sochi on vacation. Unfortunately the museum I could not agree. Irkutsk is far from Sochi, and some technical details I was not staged.