Nikolay Gritsenko

Le Havre – The Artists – Gritsenko, Nikolai

November 27, 2020 / ° Artists, Le Havre, Normandy, West

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Le Havre. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Gritsenko (1856 – 1900) was a Russian painter who specialized in painting ships and seascapes. He joined the Russian Navy early on, and was quickly noticed for his artistic skills. The Russian government even sent him to Paris to learn how to paint.

At the Paris art school, his professor was his compatriot, Alexey Bogolyubov. He died in France. Despite living in France we’ve managed to find only one of his paintings dealing with Le Havre (although he did paint other cities in Normandy, more to come later on).

Click here to read his bio on Wikipedia.

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Gritsenko painted several places in Normandy (and France), which will be featured eventually on this site. A link “⇠” to those cities will appear below when published.

Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre (a “*” indicates that the artist did not worked directly in Le Havre itself, instead worked closeby, a link “⇠” to the artist’s works will appear below when published):

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