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Original Painting |
Shchedrin, Sylvester (1791-1830)
On Veranda.
Oil on canvas, The
State Russian Museum.
Original:
26 x 35,5 cm
The copying was started
on 9 June 2003.
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Sylvester
Shchedrin was born in 1792 in St. Petersburg into the family of a famous
sculptor Pheodosiy Shchedrin (1751-1825). He entered the Academy of Arts
in St. Petersburg, in which he specialized in landscape. He graduated with
honors and a gold medal, which gave him the right for studies abroad. But
he had to wait with his postgraduate studies because of the wars with
Napoleon (Napoleon's invasion of Russia started in 1812). Sylvester left
for Italy only in 1818. In Italy, he studied the works of great masters of
the past, worked much himself. The biggest achievement of that period is
New Rome. The Castle of the Holy Angel (1823). It was a great success and
was imitated much. Sylvester himself was commissioned for 8-10 copies of
the picture, though he never copied it, but drew different variants
changing time, angle of view, details. His pension came to an end in 1823,
but he decided to stay in Italy as a freelance painter. His works of the
time were already so popular that he had many commissions to support
himself. He lived in Rome and Naples, working much out-of-doors, drawing
nature, bays and cliffs, views of small towns and fishermen villages. View
of Sorrento (1826), A Terrace on a Seashore. A Small Town of Capuccini
near Sorrento (1827), A Porch Twined with Vines (1828), Terrace on the
Seashore (1828) are the examples of his work. He liked to draw terraces in
vines with a view of the sea. In 1825-1828, he drew a lot of 'terraces',
which were a great success. For him they embodied the idea of harmony
between the lives of people, and nature. At the end of the 1820s,
Sylvester Shchedrin started to draw nighttime landscapes full of an
uneasy, anxious mood. His sickening might be the reason. After his early
death in 1830, his friends tried to bring Shchedrin's pictures home, to
Russia, but failed. Most of his pictures are in private collections all
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