Nikolay Gustavovich Shilder (also: ''Nikolai Schilder'', russian: Николай Густавович Шильдер; 1828 - ,

Saint-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian painter. Member of the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

Biography

Schilder was born to a

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father. When

Pavel Tretyakov Pavel Mikhaylovich Tretyakov (russian: Па́вел Миха́йлович Третьяко́в; 27 December 1832 – 16 December 1898) was a Russian businessman, patron of art, collector, and philanthropist who gave his name to the Tretyakov Gal ...

bought his painting '' The Temptation'' in 1856, it marked the start of his collection (together with Vasili Khudyakov's ''

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'') which later turned into the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

.Pravda, "170th anniversary of the birth of the Tretyakov Picture Gallery founder", 27 December 2002
retrieved on 1 October 2006. Shilder graduated from the

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. He became an academician of the Academy in 1861. Under the influence of

Pavel Fedotov Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Федотов; 4 July 1815 - 26 November 1852) was an amateur Russian painter. He was only 37 years old when he died in a mental clinic. He has been compared to William Hogarth. ...

he painted a series of paintings devoted to the life of ordinary people. The most notable are The Temptation (1856) that started the Tretyakov Gallery and the Forced Marriage (now in the

Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on ...

, Saint Peterburg). He also painted ceremonial portraits including the portrait of tsar

Alexander III of Russia Alexander III ( rus, Алекса́ндр III Алекса́ндрович, r=Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 18 ...

Works

Image:Shilder Temptation.jpg, The Temptation (1857) Шильдер Николай Густавович - Сговор невесты (1859).jpg, Wedding collusion (1859) Image:М. Шыльдэр. Расплата з крэдыторамі.JPG, Payback to creditors Image:Shilder AlexanderIII.jpg, Alexander III Image:Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder by N.Shilder (1870s, Museum of Artillery etc).jpg, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Шильдер Николай Густавович - Императрица Мария Фёдоровна.jpg,

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) Maria Feodorovna ( ru , Мария Фёдоровна , translit = Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as spouse of Emperor ...

References

Literary sources

External links

Nikolay Shilder in the Large Soviet Encyclopedia

About ''The Temptation''
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Male painters from the Russian Empire 1828 births 1898 deaths 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire {{Russia-painter-stub