Keywords
realist genre painting, genre paintings, historical paintings, battle-pieces, sculptures, animals, horses, road scenes, hunting paintings, horse portraits,
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Filippova O. N. Nikolai Sverchkov as an artist-animal painter, genre painter and portraitist (1817–1898) // The Art of Eurasia, 2017. № 4 (7). P. 60-72. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2017.04.004.
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Abstract
Nikolai Yegorovich (Georgievich) Sverchkov (1817–1898) was one of the early representatives of the realist genre painting. In his paintings he captured the nature of Russia, with its majestic forests and vast fields, endless roads and country roads. N.E. Sverchkov for the first time in Russian art has developed the motif of daring "bird-Troika", with the image which the people placed their dreams of a better, free life. The artist's work in many ways. He did not write both genre and historical and battle paintings, studied sculpture. Rare skill N.E. Sverchkov have achieved in the depiction of animals, especially horses. His travel scenes, hunting paintings, horse portraits played a prominent role in the history of Russian painting.
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