Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich (1832-1898) - Russian landscape painter, painter, draftsman and engraver-aquafortist. Representative of the Düsseldorf Art School.

Academician, professor, head of the landscape workshop of the Academy of Arts (1894-1895).

In all his works, he is an amazing connoisseur of plant forms, reproducing them with a subtle understanding of both general character and the smallest distinctive features of any species of trees, bushes and grasses.
The very area under the trees - stones, sand or clay, irregularities in the soil overgrown with ferns and other forest grasses, dry leaves, brushwood, dead wood, etc. - received the look of perfect reality in Shishkin's paintings and drawings.