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Ge [Gay], Nikolay (Nikolayevich)
(b Voronezh, 27 Feb 1831; d Ivanovsky farm [now T. G. Shevchenko farm], Chernihiv region, Ukraine, 13 June 1894). Russian painter. The son of a landowner and grandson of a French nobleman who emigrated during the French Revolution, he initially studied in the departments of mathematics of Kiev and St Petersburg universities (1847–50). In 1850 he enrolled at the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1857. During his time at the Academy he was strongly influenced by Karl Bryullov and Aleksandr Ivanov. He worked in Rome and Florence (1857–69), in St Petersburg and, from 1876, on his farm in Chernihiv region. He was one of the founder-members of the WANDERERS (Peredvizhniki).
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