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Valentin SerovValentin Serov (1865—1911), the son of the opera composer had come as a small boy to live at Abramtsevo with his widowed mother in 1874. He grew up in the atmosphere of constant creative activity which characterised the Mamontov household. From a very early age Serov was given drawing lessons by Repin, who was very fond of the little boy, and he soon showed himself to be a remarkably precocious draughtsman. He would catch the likeness of a model often more quickly and surely than the older artists in the merry "drawing competitions" which were so much part of this gay, idyllic life of Abramtsevo. This talent for catching a likeness Serov later developed and he became the most successful and brilliant portraitist of the 1890's and first decade of this century. But before this he was a beautiful landscape painter in a more sensuous and less nostalgic vein than his master Levitan. Serov, like Korovin, was a most beneficial influence in the Moscow College where he taught from 1900 up till 1909. He was a superb technical master of the many media in which he practised and that too did not fail to impress his students. Surikov had shown him the value of fine colours, "Girl in Sunlight".
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