Pyotr Sokolov

Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov was a Russian painter and draughtsman, active in St. Petersburg and Moscow during Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I's reigns, best known for his watercolor portraits. The first watercolorist to be elected an Imperial Academician, he painted many of the most distinguished figures of the Pushkin era. Along his sons Pyotr, Pavel and Aleksandr, all fellow artisans, he was an in-law to the extended Bryullov family.