Constantin Westchiloff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian painter
Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1878
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 04-Apr-1945
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Constantin Westchiloff
- Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff born ?????????? ????????????? ??????? / Konstantin Aleksandrovich Veschilov(15 December 1878 – 1945) was a Russian-American Impressionist painter. Westchiloff was born in Russia on 15 December 1878.
- He latinized his name to Constantin A.
- Westchiloff when he emigrated to Western Europe in 1922. He studied under Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.
- Petersburg from 1898.
- He won an award in 1904 for the painting, "Ivan the Terrible After the Triumph of Kazan." He held a foreign study fellowship from the Royal Academy in 1905-06.
- He exhibited in the Royal Academy's Fall Exhibit of 1906, showing "Breakthrough of the Cruiser Askold in 1904 in the Yellow Sea," which documented the Russo-Japanese War.
- In that Academy exhibit he also showed portraits of Count Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky and of Lieut.
- S.
- Poguljajeff.
- He was also active in theatre design at the Petrograd Technical Institute. He emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1922, lived in Italy (1923-1928), France (1929-1935), and immigrated to the United States in 1935 and settled in New York City, where he died. Throughout his career Westchiloff painted a wide variety of subjects in the Impressionist style, but was particularly noted for his seascapes and harbor scenes.
- He operated a studio in New York and often painted coastal Maine scenes.
- What may be his largest work, "Niagara Falls" at 57-inches wide by 48-inches high, appeared at auction in London in the early 1980s and is now in a private collection in Chicago.
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