Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (; (Лансере); – 20 September 1967) was a Russian and later French painter.
Family
Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov into the artistic Benois family in the Russian Empire.
Her father, Evgenii Lansere, was a sculptor and her mother, Ekaterina Lansere, was a painter. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a prominent architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. One of Zinaida's brothers, Nikolay Lanceray, was an architect, and her other brother, Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, had an important place in Russian and Soviet art as a master of monumental painting and graphic art. The English actor and writer Peter Ustinov was also related to her.
