"Pine Forest After Rain" dated 1895. Gorgeous romantic landscape set deep in the woods. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled verso. Julius Von Klever, known as the Russian Rembrandt, was a landscape painter noted especially for his exploration of the effects created by the light of the Russian sunsets on the vast snowy expanses of the forest in winter.An artist and teacher, Julius Von Klever was born to German parents in Estonia, studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, was a founding member of the Society of Exhibitions of Works of Art and was an Academician and professor.Von Klever suffered a mental breakdown after being drawn into a scandal involving gambling and embezzlement at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Forced to abandon painting, he went to Germany to rest, and later returned to Petrograd, where he taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Vera Mukhina School of Art and Industry. He died in Leningrad and is buried at the Smolensk Cemetery. Overall size: 41 x 31 in.Sight size: 21 x 31 in.Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.