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Nikolay Shilder

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Nikolay Gustavovich Shilder (also: Nikolai Schilder, Russian: Николай Густавович Шильдер; 1828 - 25 March [O.S. 13 March] 1898, Saint-Petersburg) was a Russian painter. Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

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Biography

Schilder was born to a Baltic German father. He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He became an academician of the Academy in 1861. Under the influence of Pavel Fedotov he painted a series of paintings devoted to the life of ordinary people (genre painting). He also painted ceremonial portraits, including the portrait of tsar Alexander III of Russia.[citation needed]

His son, Andrey Shilder [ru], was also a painter, mostly known for his landscape art.[2]

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Works

  • Farewell of the Militiamen (Russian: Прощание ополченцев, 1855) is a painting on the occasion of the Crimean War. Its original is at the Russian Museum, St. Petersbur[3]
  • The Temptation (Russian: Искушение, 1857) It was the first Shilder's work in the style then called "painting of folk scenes" (Russian: живопись народных сцен) or de genre (genre painting).[4] Originally it was thought that was bought by Pavel Tretyakov in 1856, as one or the first items of his collection (together with Vasily Khudyakov's A Skirmish with Finnish Smugglers [ru]), which later turned into the Tretyakov Gallery, but more recently it was concluded that the painting was completed in 1857 and sold in 1858. A possible explanation of the discrepancy in dates is that Tretyakov possibly saw a sketch and paid in advance.[5]
  • Wedding Arrangement (Russian: Сговор невесты, 1859) is a paining Schilder prepared for the academic exhibition of 1860. The whereabouts of the original are unknown and its sketch is at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. The painting was also known under the title Forced Marriage (Насильный брак).[6]
  • Money Lender (Russian: Ростовщик, 1859); its sketch is at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.[7]
  • A Payback to the Creditors (Расплата с кредиторами») In 1861, this painting earned Schilder the title of Academician of Genre and Battle Painting.[4] Fyodor Dostoyevsky described it as having "a very strong melodrama feel", with its an accidental denouement resembling a cheap vaudeville.[8]
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