Yuli (Yuily) Yulievich (Yulevich) Klever (Estonian/Russian, 1850-1924). "Horse and Sleigh Rider on a Long Winter Road". Oil on canvas. c1915-1917. Signed lower right. Good condition; unobtrusive top horizontal canvas addition or crease, hidden on the verso by the stretcher bar. Klever studied at the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, initially in an architectural class (1867-1868) and then in landscape (1868-1870) as a pupil of Vorobjev and Klodt. The landscape, especially winter snow scenes, became Klever’s calling. Image size: 18 x 24 in. (457 x 610 mm). Frame size: 22 7/8 x 30 1/2 in. (581 x 775 mm). [27876] |8000| {R100} tzzzz~tuzzz