[Wikipedia] Pyotr Vereshchagin

Pyotr Petrovich Vereshchagin (Russian: Пётр Петрович Верещагин; 14 January 1834/36 in Perm – 16 January 1886 in Perm) was a Russian landscape and cityscape painter in the Academic style. He was the first to paint plein-air in the wilderness of the Urals.