Sylvester Shchedrin
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Sylvester Shchedrin (1791-1830) (born Silvestr Shchedrin) was a Russian painter.
Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg into the family of the famous sculptor Pheodosiy Shchedrin. The landscape painter, Semion Shchedrin, was his uncle. In 1800, Sylvester Shchedrin entered the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied landscape painting. He graduated with several awards and the ability to study abroad. Sylvester left for Italy in 1818, delayed due to the war with Napoleon. In Italy, he studied the masters. His pension ended in 1823, but he decided to stay in abroad as a freelance painter. Shchedrin had many commissions and grew to become a well-known artist in Italy. He lived in Rome and Naples, working plenair, drawing bays and cliffs and views of small towns and fishermen villages. Shchedrin would later be draw terraces in vines with a view of the sea. At the end of the 1820s, Shchedrin began to draw more uneasy, almost nightmarish landscapes, which may have been inspired from his gradually declining health. He died in 1830.
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