SHCHEDRIN, Feodosy Fyodorovich


SHCHEDRIN, Feodosy Fyodorovich

Artist

(b. 1751, St. Petersburg, d. 1825, St. Petersburg)

Details

Russian sculptor. The son of an Imperial Guardsman, he studied from 1764 to 1772 at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Nicolas-François Gillet. After winning a scholarship he continued his training in France and Rome, including a period of study in Paris (1775-84) under Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain. Early in his career he progressed from a Baroque style (e.g. Marsyas, bronze, 1776) to a mixture of Baroque and classical (e.g. Endymion Sleeping, bronze, 1779), becoming predominantly Neo-classical only from the 1790s (e.g. Venus, marble, 1792; all St Petersburg, Russian Museum). His brother Semyon, and his son Sil'vestr were painters. //


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Artist nationality Russian