Shchedrin Sylvester Feodosievich ( (1791-1830) (22 works)

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Shchedrin Sylvester Feodosievich (1791-1830), Russian artist, landscape painter, representative of romanticism.

Self-portrait. 1817

Born in St. Petersburg on February 2 (13), 1791. Son of the famous sculptor F.F. Shchedrin, nephew of the landscape painter Semyon F. Shchedrin. In 1800 he was enrolled in the Educational School of the Academy of Arts. Having successfully completed his studies (1811), he received the right to “pension” abroad. Due to the War of 1812, his trip was postponed, and he arrived in Rome in 1818. He lived in Naples, then again in Rome. Finally (from 1825) he finally settled in Naples, often visiting small towns on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the summer to work.
At first he painted landscapes composed in the studio, rather conventional in color and spatial composition (View from Petrovsky Island, 1811, Russian Museum). In Italy, he began to actively work on location, increasingly organically embodying living plein air impressions in paintings (the series Waterfalls in Tivoli, 1821-1823; New Rome, 1823-1825). He achieved particular pictorial perfection in the cycles of the Harbor in Sorrento (1825-1827) and the Terraces in Sorrento; luminous colorful scales, harmonious combinations of landscape and genre motifs form here major images of “midday paradise” - “paradise”, however, quite real and devoid of excessive idyllicity. The master's romantic poetics becomes more complex in the later Harbors in Sorrento (1828-1830) and Moonlit Nights in Naples (1828-1829), especially in the latter, where color and light effects acquire an unsteady and disturbing dramatism.

Shchedrin had a great influence on the process of plein-air transformation of the romantic landscape not only in Russian, but also in Italian art (partly because many of his works remained in Italy). The local Neapolitan “Posilipo school” owes a lot to Shchedrin. In its own way, the master’s epistolary legacy is significant, full of vivid artistic observations (published in the book: Shchedrin S.F. Letters from Italy. M., 1932; republished in 1978).

Shchedrin died in Sorrento on November 8, 1830.