Ion Andreescu

He was the son of Andrei Dobrescu and Anastasia Pencovico. It is unknown if he was born in Bucharest or in another one of his parents' residences in the vicinity of the city. His father was a beverage merchant and owned an Inn in Mahalaua Staicului. Andreescu was privately schooled during his elementary school years by Andreas Apostolas. In 1863 he attended the Gheorghe Lazăr Middle School in Bucharest, and then the Sfântul Sava High School. As a student of the Saint Sava High School, he won 1st prize in an Art contest. In 1869, Andreescu dropped out of high school and started attending Theodor Aman's "National School of Fine Arts" (now known as the Bucharest National University of Arts) where he studied Linear Drawing and Calligraphy. By 1872 he was an instructor of Drawing and Calligraphy at the Bishop's School in Buzău. His work was exhibited with the works of better-known painters such as Édouard Manet, Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In 1881 Andreescu returned to Romania, ill with tuberculosis. His death followed shortly in 1882. He is buried in Bucharest's Bellu Cemetery. In 1948 he was elected post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy. ==Gallery==