Leonid Efros

{{short description|Russian oil painter and enamellist|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Leonid Efros (Леонид Эфрос) is a Russian oil painter and enamellist. His work includes drawings and paintings of European royalty, including Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, Princess Anne and Princess Michael of Kent.{{cite news |url=http://www.efross.com/press/06.pdf |title=Russian Artists Paint the Queen |work=The Daily Telegraph| date=July 31, 1992 | accessdate=2012-01-16}} He drew the Queen during a two-hour sitting in March 1992 alongside long-time collaborator Alexei Maximov.{{cite news|url=http://en.newstyle-mag.com/autors/vika-nova/alexei-maximov-enamel-%E2%80%93-a-delicate-matter.html |title=Alexei Maximov: Enamel – a delicate matter |work=New Style Magazine |date=n.d. |accessdate=2013-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104045923/http://en.newstyle-mag.com/autors/vika-nova/alexei-maximov-enamel-%E2%80%93-a-delicate-matter.html |archivedate=2012-01-04 }}

His drawings formed the basis of an exhibition of enamels at the Kremlin Armoury in 1994. Examples of his work are held in the Kremlin's permanent collection as well as other important Russian galleries.{{cite web |url=http://www.rostmuseum.ru/Publications/Publication/294 |title=Pavlovich M.K. (Moscow) Enamel artists documents in the archives of the Moscow Kremlin Museums |language=Russian |publisher=The State Museum (Kremlin)| date= | accessdate=2013-11-09 |quote=one can not say a few words about the Petersburg artists Leonid Efros and Alexei Maximov, whose work and documents are also represented in the Moscow Kremlin. Leonid Efros, preferring genre miniatures on enamel, devoted part of his works to the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov and other historical figures... Maximov and Efros exhibited works in Russia and abroad, many of them are in the leading museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as abroad.}} His work has been exhibited at the Moscow City Museum and the F.M. Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).{{cite web |url=http://www.efross.com/english/exhibitions/ |title=Personal Exhibitions |author=Efross.com | accessdate=2012-01-16}}