Anatoly Shumkin was born in Chikment (Kazakhstan) in 1984. He finished Chikment art college named after Kasteev. In 2012 he successfully finished the Russian Academy of Arts (workshop of easel painting of V.S. Pesikov. Artwork "Rembrandt in his workshop" was praised by the council. The artist mixes the experience and traditions of Russian and European schools of classical realistic painting in his artworks.
