Anastas Bocarić

(Budva, Montenegro, 1864 – Perast, Montenegro, 1944)

He first studied painting in Thessalonica and then enrolled with the Academy in Athens. He worked in Cetinje, Zagreb, Mostar, Sarajevo, and Novi Sad.

The Serbian Government sent him from Belgrade to Istanbul to open a  school and work there as the teacher of drawing. In 1905, he left for Cairo, and from Cairo, he returned to Skopje, where he worked as a grammar school professor. In the eve of the World War I, he moved to Thessalonica again, and returned definitely to Montenegro 1932. Since then he lived in Perast, where he made portraits of the citizens of Boka Kotorska.