- Konstantin Westchilov
Konstantin Alexandrovich Westchilov (1877-1945) was a
Russia nImpressionist painter.Westchilov was born in Russia in 1877. He studied under
Ilya Repin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts inSt. Petersburg . He exhibited at the fir the first time there in 1919, and was active in theatre design at the Petrograd Technical Institute. Westchilov painted a wide variety of subjects in the Impressionist style, but was particularly noted for his seascapes and harbor scenes. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, and immigrated to theUnited States and settled inNew England , where he died.
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