Portraits of their loved ones Repin created all his life. Especially often the artist wrote his first wife, Vera, and children. Several times Repin posed his brother Vasily, professionally engaged in music.
Most of these portraits are made in a free manner, but there are in the heritage of the painter and strict works of this genre. About a dozen self-portraits of Repin reached us. Together, they represent a kind of “chronicle” of the artist’s life.
Related Paintings 
On the turf bench by Ilya Repin 
Vera Repin on the bridge in Abramtsevo by Ilya Repin 
Abramtsevo. Summer landscape by Ilya Repin 
Surgeon E. V. Pavlov in the operating room by Ilya Repin 
Domaha by Ilya Repin 
Sadko by Ilya Repin 
Descanso – Ilya Repin 
Portrait of the composer and chemist Alexander Borodin Porfirievich by Ilya Repin
On the turf bench by Ilya Repin Vera Repin on the bridge in Abramtsevo by Ilya Repin Abramtsevo. Summer landscape by Ilya Repin Surgeon E. V. Pavlov in the operating room by Ilya Repin Domaha by Ilya Repin Sadko by Ilya Repin Descanso – Ilya Repin Portrait of the composer and chemist Alexander Borodin Porfirievich by Ilya Repin