13.02.1791 – 08.11.1830

Sylvester Shchedrin was born on February 13, 1791 in the family of the famous Petersburg sculptor, rector of the Academy of Arts Feodosiy Fedorovich Shchedrin. The future artist grew up surrounded by people close to art and early discovered the ability to draw. He observed the work of his father and uncle, Semyon Fedorovich, the famous landscape painter, at the age of 9, Sylvester goes to study at the Academy of Arts, where he will study for 11 years. Having graduated from the Academy with the Big Gold Medal for the painting “View from the Petrovsky Island in St. Petersburg”, Shchedrin was given the opportunity to leave for further studies abroad, but the trip had to be postponed because of the difficult military-political situation in Europe.

Arriving in Italy in 1818, Sylvester Shchedrin works a lot and fruitfully, writes monuments of antiquity, first strictly adhering to the traditions of academicism. However, the artist increasingly gravitates toward simplicity and naturalness, his paintings “New Rome. Castle of Saint Angel “,” Lake Albano “made a great impression on contemporaries.

When the term of stay as a pensioner expired, Sylvester Shchedrin decides not to return to Russia and leaves for Naples, which was fascinated and wrote him a lot. “View of Naples. Santa Lucia “,” View of Sorrento near Naples “,” Fishermen at the shore “,” The Great Harbor in Sorrento “,” The Little Harbor in Sorrento “- landscapes painted by the artist in the late 1820s, are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and in Russian museum.

Despite the severe liver disease, Sylvester Shchedrin performed many orders, but the artist’s efforts melted. He died in Sorrento on October 27, 1830, at the age of 39.