Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin , 1842 - 1904

Wikipedia: Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Василий Василиевич Верещагин 1842 - 1904) was the most famous Russian battle painter and the first Russian artist to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited...Read more here.