Unfinished painting. The depicted are: A.N. Olenin, President of the Imperial Academy of Arts (chairman); sculptors F.P. Tolstoy (among the group standing on the left) and P.A. Stavasser (getting his first gold medal for the sculpture Fishing Boy); at the table are professors: A.E. Yegorov, V.K. Shebuev, N.I. Utkin, K.A. Thon, K.P. Bryullov, P.V. Basin, A.T. Markov and honourary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts I.A. Krylov. The foreground features conference secretary V.I. Grigorovich. In November 1884, P.M. Tretyakov acquired the painting, which was then titled as Assembly at the Academy, at A.F. Felten’s print and painting shop.