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Pyotr Shamshin | |
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| Пётр Михайлович Шамшин | |
 Self-Portrait, 1867, oils; Russian Museum | |
| Born | January 10, 1811 |
| Died | February 6, 1895 (aged 84) |
Resting place | Smolensky Cemetery, St. Petersburg |
| Education | Member Academy of Arts (1844) Professor by rank (1853) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1838) |
| Known for | History painting |
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Pyotr Mikhailovich Shamshin (Russian: Пётр Михайлович Шамшин; (10 January 1811 – 6 February 1895)[1] was a Russian painter in the Academical style, active in St. Petersburg during Tsars Nicholas I through Alexander III's reigns, primarily known for his history paintings.
Biography
[edit]His father, Mikhail Nikitich Shamshin, was a portrait painter who taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts.[2] At the age of ten, he entered the primary school at the Academy and studied under Alexei Yegorov and Vasily Shebuyev, with Pyotr Basin joining much later. In 1836, he was awarded a large gold medal for his depiction of the massacre of Niobe's children by Artemis and Apollo.[3]
He graduated in 1838 with the title of "Artist" and a small gold medal for a scene from the Iliad. His title included a stipend to study abroad, so he went to Italy and remained there for seven years. After returning, he became a teacher at the Academy.[3] He was elected an Imperial Academician in 1844 for his paintings of Hagar in the desert and Peter the Great rescuing drowning soldiers near his estate in Lakhta; an act that probably hastened Peter's death.
He was awarded the title of Professor in 1853 for his version of the Resurrection. Six years later, due to changes in the Academy's charter, he was redesignated as an "Associate Professor". In 1863, he became a "Professor, First Degree".[3] After holding that position for twenty years, he was named the Rector for painting and sculpture. Among his best-known students were Isaak Asknaziy, Vasily Savinsky, Viktor Bobrov and Vasily Smirnov.[2] Shortly before his death, due to a new statute for the Academy, he was dismissed because of age. His burial, at the Smolensky Cemetery, was lost during the Soviet era.[4][3]
Most of his works were religious in nature and may be seen at Saint Isaac's Cathedral and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. He also painted for smaller churches throughout Russia, but some of those works were lost or destroyed during the early Soviet period.[2]
Selected paintings
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Massacre of the Niobids, 1836; Yaroslavl Art Museum
Female Dancer from Trastavere, 1840; Tretyakov Gallery, formerly in the Rumyantsev Museum, once owned by Feodor Pryanishnikov
Portrait of an Unknown Lady, supposed to be of Yelizaveta Krivtsova (née Princess Repnina-Volkonskaya), c. 1842; Tretyakov Gallery
Yekaterina Junge (née Countess Tolstaya) as child, 1845; Tretyakov Gallery, acquired by Pavel Tretyakov in 1895, previously owned by Kozma Soldatyonkov[6]![Alexander Nevsky's Prayer Before a Campaign, 1855; Vyatka Art Museum [ru], Kirov, Kirov Oblast, formerly in the Rumyantsev Museum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Pyotr_Shamshin%2C_Alexander_Nevsky%2C_1855%2C_Vyatskiy_Art_Museum_%D0%96-364%3B_from_goskatalog.ru.jpg/250px-Pyotr_Shamshin%2C_Alexander_Nevsky%2C_1855%2C_Vyatskiy_Art_Museum_%D0%96-364%3B_from_goskatalog.ru.jpg)
Alexander Nevsky's Prayer Before a Campaign, 1855; Vyatka Art Museum, Kirov, Kirov Oblast, formerly in the Rumyantsev Museum[7][8]
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References
[edit]- ↑ Biographical notes @ Art Catalog.ru.
- 1 2 3 Life and appreciation @ LiveInternet.
- 1 2 3 4 "Шамшин, Петр Михайлович". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 Volumes (82 Volumes and 4 Additional Volumes) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: F. A. Brockhaus. 1890–1907. .
- ↑ Khvostova 2011, p. 12.
- ↑ Anisimov, Evgeniy V. [in Russian] (2020). 100 картин русской истории (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Arca. pp. 236–239. ISBN 978-5-91208-411-9.
- ↑ Junge, Yekaterina F. (1914). Novitsky, Aleksey P. [in Russian] (ed.). Воспоминания (1843—1860 гг.) (in Russian). Moscow: Sphinks. p. 18.
- ↑ Goryunova, Lyubov B.; et al. (2003). Кировский областной художественный музей имени В. М. и А. М. Васнецовых (collection artbook). Сокровища русского искусства (in Russian). Moscow: Belyi Gorod. 12, 62; ill. no. 18 facing p. 13. ISBN 5-7793-0578-1.
- ↑ Ignatovich, Tatyana N. (2009). Картины Румянцевского музея в музейных собраниях живописи России и соседних государств (in Russian). Moscow: Pashkov Dom. pp. 118, 335; cat. no. 330. ISBN 978-5-7510-0442-2.
- ↑ Repin, Ilya Ye. and Tretyakov, Pavel M. (1946). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (ed.). Письма И. Е. Репина: Переписка с П. М. Третьяковым, 1873–1898 (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 95, 197.
Further reading
[edit]- Khvostova, Galina A. (2011). "Шамшин Петр Михайлович". In Yakovlev, Vladimir V. (ed.). Девятнадцатый век: Ш — Я. Приложение, указатели. Три века Санкт-Петербурга (in Russian). Vol. 2, pt. 8. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Filology. pp. 10–12. ISBN 978-5-905011-02-3.
External links
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Media related to Pyotr Shamshin at Wikimedia Commons
- Pyotr Shamshin at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website (in Russian)
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Academic staff of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts
- 1811 births
- 1895 deaths
- 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
- Religious artists
- History painters from the Russian Empire
- Artists from Saint Petersburg
- 19th-century male painters from the Russian Empire