Alexandre Nicolaievitch  Roussoff
Russian, (1844-1928)

Cairo
Watercolour, signed & dated 1889
21 inches x 11 inches

Alexandre Nicolaievitch Roussoff or Volkoff-Muromsoff was a genre and landscape painter, mainly in watercolours who was born in Russia in 1844. He travelled to Egypt and Italy painting may scenes, settling in Venice in 1881. Whilst living among an international community of artists he met the artist James McNeil Whistler through the genre and landscape painter Henry Woods. The two became friends also developing a degree of rivalry, due to the similar subject and composition of their Venetian scenes. A number of references to Roussoff appear in the various correspondence of Whistler. From 1880 to 1911, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Dudley Gallery as well as at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Manchester City Art Gallery. From 1888 to 1901 he held a series of successful exhibitions at the Fine Art Society showing many of his watercolour scenes of Cairo and the Nile. Roussoff was considered the master of modern Russian painting creating a very personal and recognisable style. A number of his works can be found in various museums across the world including the Derby, Moscow and Sydney Art Galleries as well as in the Southampton Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.

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