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1817 St. Petersburg, Russia - 1898 Tsarskoye Selo, Russia. Known for: Animal scene and folk genre painting and lithographs.
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by... Read full biography
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order... Read full biography
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. Returning to Petersburg from abroad in 1864, Sverchkov painted The Turn-out of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich on the Military Parade of 1664 for Alexander II. Originally Sverchkov... Read full biography
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. Returning to Petersburg from abroad in 1864, Sverchkov painted The Turn-out of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich on the Military Parade of 1664 for Alexander II. Originally Sverchkov served in the economic department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1839 he sent his first paintings to academical exhibition and two years later left his governmental office. An animal painter, Sverchkov started his creative work at the... Read full biography
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. Returning to Petersburg from abroad in 1864, Sverchkov painted The Turn-out of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich on the Military Parade of 1664 for Alexander II. Originally Sverchkov served in the economic department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1839 he sent his first paintings to academical exhibition and two years later left his governmental office. An animal painter, Sverchkov started his creative work at the Khrenovskiy and Chesmenskiy state stud farms. In 1844 Sverchkov did several lithograph... Read full biography
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Nicolas Gregorovitch Svertschkoff, Nikolai Egorovitsch Swertschkow, Nikolaj Jegorowicz Swierczkow
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Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. His works begun to attract public attention from 1844. Sverchkov's Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings (The Fair and The Station) Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor.
Returning to Petersburg from abroad in 1864, Sverchkov painted The Turn-out of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich on the Military Parade of 1664 for Alexander II.
Originally Sverchkov served in the economic department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1839 he sent his first paintings to academical exhibition and two years later left his governmental office.
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