The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has recognized that Ilya Repin and Ivan Aivazovsky are Ukrainian artists. According to Ukrinform, this is evidenced by the signatures under their works on the museum's website..

So, in the caption to the portrait of the writer Vsevolod Garshin, the portrait of a boy, “Shepherd with a flock of sheep” and other paintings by Repin, it is indicated that he is a Ukrainian artist originally from Chuguev, now Kharkov region.

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Recall that Repin was born in 1844 in Chuguev, studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and painted his paintings in the Russian Empire, which is why he was considered a Russian artist for a long time..

Aivazovsky was born in 1817 in Feodosia, in the family of an Armenian shopkeeper, who moved there from Galicia, where their ancestors moved from Western Armenia. He also studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Moscow called him a Russian marine painter.

Earlier, the Metropolitan Museum recognized Arkhip Kuindzhi, who was born in Mariupol, as a Ukrainian artist..