Brief Biography-Paul Raud, twin brother of Kristjan Raud, was a student of the Estonian artist Eduard von Gebhardt at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. He spent time back in Estonia doing portraiture and traveling the West Estonian archipelago with his brother Kristjan. Later he became influenced by the works of Ilya Repin whom he worked with in Germany. He spent the last years of his career teaching in Tallinn.