Alexander Sergeeff was born in Moscow, Russia in 1968. He started painting at age 5. After winning his first art prize at age 9, he soon enrolled in the Middle School of Art. Greatly influenced by Diego Velàzquez and John Singer Sargent, he studied at both the Moscow Institute of Arts and the Russian Academy of Painting. When he was invited to Rome in 1990, he fell in love with the light and beauty of the Eternal City and immigrated to Italy. He now works in his studio in Rome. He paints unique portraits and commissions in which, for example, clients ask him to include a particular memento in the background. His art has been featured in numerous publications, including a special Italian edition of Architectural Digest, and has appeared in exhibitions in Moscow, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, and Stockholm, as well as in the United States from Connecticut to California.