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Stepan Semyonovich Shchukin (Russian: Степан Семёнович Щукин; 1754, Moscow - 10 October 1828, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait and watercolor painter. Some sources give his year of birth as 1762.

Biography

He was the son of an army sergeant and was apparently abandoned by his family.[1] His first art lessons were taken with Dmitry Levitzky at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1782, he was sent abroad for "self-improvement",[2] changed his name from Semyonov to Shchukin.[1]^{[clarification needed]} and spent some time at the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, where he studied with Alexandre Roslin and Joseph-Benoît Suvée.[1]

In 1786, he returned from Paris and, two years later, was appointed a teacher of portraiture at the Academy.[1] He was promoted to Academician Candidate for his portrait of the Academy's Director Yury Felten then, the following year, was named a full Academician for his portrait of Tsar Paul I.[2]

In 1803, he was appointed a Counselor and, a few months thereafter, became Secretary of the Academic Conference. Shortly before his death, he received the title of Senior Advisor. Among his best-known students were Alexander Varnek and Vasily Tropinin.[2]

Selected portraits

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  Yury Felten (1797)
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  Tsar Alexander I (1809)
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  Nikolay Novosiltsev (1808)
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  Dmitry Khvostov
  (date unknown)

References

External links

Media related to Stepan Shchukin at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin

Stepan Semjonowitsch Schtschukin (russisch Степан Семёнович Щукин; * 1754; † 10. Oktober 1828) war ein russischer Maler, der vor allem Porträts malte. Er erlernte sein Handwerk bei Dmitri Lewizki an der Russischen Kunstakademie. 1787 wurde er für ein Porträt des Zaren Paul I. zum Akademiker erhoben.

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- [en] Stepan Shchukin

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[ru] Щукин, Степан Семёнович

Степа́н Семёнович Щу́кин (1754 или 1758[1][2], Санкт-Петербург или Москва[3] — 10 октября 1828[1], Санкт-Петербург[3]) — русский живописец, мастер портрета, академик и профессор Императорской Академии Художеств.

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