This category brings together painters whose biography or work is connected to Nizhny Novgorod and the region. Painting is understood here in the professional sense: works executed in paint on canvas, panel, and similar materials — as distinct from graphic art created on paper. Among the names represented are contemporary Nizhny Novgorod painters such as Vladimir Ivanovich Averin and Pridanov), as well as historical figures: Pavel Vedenetsky, a native of Nizhny Novgorod, and Alexander Vasilyevich Stupin, who founded the first provincial private art school in the Russian Empire in Arzamas.