There you go

Solomko was a prominent book illustrator and watercolour painter, who graduated from the Moscow School of Painting and the Imperial Academy of Arts.

A fashionable artist of the early 1900s whose watercolours were reproduced in huge numbers on postcards of the period. His favourite subjects included romantic couples in traditional Russian costumes and historical genre scenes.

He worked as an illustrator for the St. Petersburg periodical Niva, which was prominent amongst the illustrated, artistic and satirical magazines of the turn of the century.

Solomko’s The Beauty of Russia is a portrait from the beginning of the twentieth century, a time when he worked on a series of portraits of women wearing historical head-dress from different periods in Russian history.
These were then etched by M.V. Rundaltsov and reproduced as postcards in 1901.

It is therefore likely that this portrait belongs to the aforementioned series. Rundaltsov was a member of the Russian Artistic and Industrial Society, in St. Petersburg. The society’s objective was to promote the development of artistic industry and distribute theoretical and practical knowledge of the applied arts. Among the participants were artists V.P. Babenchikov, N.O. Blinov, R.F. Wilde and E.F. Faberge.

The society co-operated with the Faberge Company, and Solomko was at one point employed by the Faberge firm as a miniature painter.

Re: There you go

Thanks for that info! I figured someone here would know something about him.

*Love* the bird with the woman's head.