A pioneering female artist working in this country, who painted New Girl at School and several portraits of Aylmer Maude, was Emily Shanks.
A pioneering female artist working in this country, who painted New Girl at School and several portraits of Aylmer Maude, was Emily Shanks. A painter from this country showed a dark, hooded Judas casting a huge shadow as he walks away from a reclining Christ in his 1861 depiction of the Last Supper. Those painters from this country were members of the Wanderers, as was a man who depicted the surprising return of a political (*) exile in They Did Not Expect Him and showed men laughing uproariously while writing a letter to Sultan Mehmed IV in another painting. The most famous painting by that native of this country depicts eleven tired men dragging a barge upriver. For 10 points, name this home country of Nikolai Ge and Ilya Repin, who painted Volga Boatmen.
A pioneering female artist working in this country, who painted New Girl at School and several portraits of Aylmer Maude, was Emily Shanks.
Russia [or the Russian Empire; or Rossiya; or Rossiyskaya Imperiya; reverse-prompt on "Ukraine" since Repin was born in what's now Ukraine but it sure wasn't an independent country then]