Nikolai Smolin
Nikolai Fyodorovich Smolin (1888–1962) was a Russian Empire and Soviet portrait painter. Biography
The artist was born in 1888 in Platonovka, Perm Governorate. His father worked the goldfields, his mother came from a working-class family and was a housewife. While studying at the Chelyabinsk City School, he began to paint. In 1900, he moved to Tomsk with his family, where he entered a craft school. In the same city, he entered the art studio of Augusta Stepanovna Kapustina-Popova. In 1935 artist moved to Novosibirsk, where he first lived on Kirov Street, later he lived on Bolshevistskaya Street near the Trud Plant. Workers of this enterprise become characters in his paintings. He died in Novosibirsk in 1962. Some works
 Portrait of a Wife against a Background of Greenery (1912);
 Self-portrait (1916);
 Portrait of the artist Bortnich (1916);
 Portrait of V. S. Nemetz (1932);
 Portrait of the architect A. D. Kryachkov (1943);
 Portrait of Elizaveta Styuart (1944);
 Portrait of electrician rationalizer N. A. Bezrodny (1956–1957), in 2011, A. O. Kuprisova, the granddaughter of N. A. Bezrodny, presented a portrait of her grandfather to the Novosibirsk State Art Museum;
 Self-portrait (1958);
 ''Portrait of A. S. Nikulin (1961). External links
 Искусство портрета Николая Смолина. Сибирские огни. Забытый портрет кисти Николая Фёдоровича Смолина. Сибирские огни. 1888 births
1962 deaths
Soviet painters
Painters from the Russian Empire
Artists from Novosibirsk