BELLE ASSIETTE EN SARREGUEMINES SERIE "RUSSIE" C)
L'assiette en faïence à décor polychrome d'un cavalier et sa fille, attribut d'équitation.
Le diamètre est de 20,3 cm.
Elle est marquée "SARREGUEMINES RUSSIE".
Elle est bon état.
FRENCH POTTERY SARREGUEMINES PLATE "RUSSIA" BY SVERCHKOV Nikolai Egorovich Николая Егоровича Сверчкова 1880
French pottery plate, russian horseman, and attributes riding.
Diameter : 20,3 cm.
Mark : printed marks
Condition : good.
Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov (Russian: Николай Егорович Сверчков; (2 February 1817, Saint Petersburg - 25 July 1898, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian painter who specialized in genre and hunting scenes with horses.
Biography
His father was an Imperial groom and coachman. As a child, he worked with his father and began drawing animals.[1] Impressed with his work, his parents arranged for him to take lessons at the Imperial Academy of Arts with the battle painter, Alexander Sauerweid, from 1827 to 1829. Unable to keep up with the rigorous program there, he was transferred to the prestigious Saint Peter's School, where he studied from 1829 to 1833.[1] Upon graduating, he found employment with the Ministry of the Interior.
He painted in his free time and showed his works at the annual exhibitions of the Academy. In 1839, he was awarded the title of "Free Artist" and quit the civil service. During the 1840s, he visited several famous stud farms to paint scenes of the horses there. In 1850, these were published in book form by the Velten company in Karlsruhe.[2]
Following that, he visited Nikolai Nekrasov at his estate near Yaroslavl and created illustrations for some of his works.[2] In 1852, he was named an "Academician" for his popular troika paintings, and became a Professor in 1855.[1]
From 1856 to 1864, he lived abroad; first in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon, then in London and Brussels.[2] In 1863, his painting of a bear hunt was purchased by Emperor Napoleon III.
