Semyon Fyodorovich Shchedrin (1745–1804) was a Russian landscape painter, the uncle and mentor of
Sylvester Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosiyevich Shchedrin (russian: Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин; 13 February 17918 November 1830) was a Russian landscape painter.
Biography
Sylvester Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg into the family o ...
. Member of the
Imperial Academy of Arts.
Biography
He was born in
St. Petersburg into the family of a life guard. In 1759, he entered the
Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and in 1765 graduated with a gold medal and grants to study abroad. Shchedrin ventured to
Paris, then to
Rome. In Paris he studied the works of old and contemporary painters. Under the influence of
Rousseau's idea that beauty exists not only in classic patterns of arts but also in everyday life and nature, Shchedrin worked much en
plein-air, otherwise known as painting in outdoor environments. In Rome, however, he fell under the influence of
classicism, the idea that art should reflect the works of antiquity and thus prolong their successes.
Shchedrin returned to St. Petersburg in 1776 and became a professor of landscape painting in the Academy of Arts. One of his students at the Academy was
Fyodor Matveyev
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Matveyev (russian: Фёдор Михайлович Матвеев; 1758–1826) was a Russian classicist landscape painter, most recognizable for his Italian landscapes. He was one of the first Russian landscape painters.
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Shchedrin was assigned to draw views of the palaces and parks of
Catherine the Great
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, which brought into existence such works as ''View of the Large Pond Island in the Tsarskoselsky Gardens'' (1777), ''View of the Large Pond in the Tsarskoselsky Gardens'' (1777), ''View of the Farmyard in the
Tsarskoye Selo'' (1777). After 1780, Shchedrin also participated in the restoration of pictures in the
Hermitage, and in 1799 he headed a new class of landscape graphics.
The pinnacle of his art career came in the 1790s. The most famous of his works of the period are views of parks and palaces in
Pavlovsk,
Gatchina, and
Petergof: ''The Mill and the Peel Tower at Pavlovsk'' (1792), ''View of the Gatchina Palace from the Silver Lake'' (1798), ''View of the Gatchina Palace from Long Island'' (1798), ''The Stone Bridge at Gatchina'' (1799–1801), ''View of the
Kamennoostrovsky Palace
Kamenny Island Palace (Каменноостровский дворец) is a former imperial palace on the south-western promontory of Kamenny Island in St. Petersburg.
The Neoclassical edifice was commissioned in the 1770s by Catherine II of R ...
through Bolshaya Nevka from the Stroganov Seashore'' (1803). The composition of all of his works is the same in accordance with the rules of academic classicism.
Gallery
File:Semion Shchedrin The Stone Bridge in Gatchina near Constable Square.jpg, ''The Stone Bridge at Gatchina''
File:Semen Shchedrin - Пейзаж в окрестностях Петербурга - Google Art Project.jpg, ''View in Petersburg's Environs''
File:Shchedrin kamenny.jpg, ''View of Kamenny Island and the Palace in St. Petersburg''
File:Семен Щедрин. Пейзаж в Царскосельском парке с видом на ферму.jpg, ''Landscape in the park Tsarskoe Selo''
References
External links
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Russian neoclassical painters
Russian landscape painters
1745 births
1804 deaths