Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin was a Russian landscape painter. He was the son of Feodosiy Fyodorovich Shchedrin, a sculptor, professor, and rector of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
His first teacher was his uncle Semyon Fyodorovich Shchedrin, a professor of landscape painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Between 1800 and 1811, Sylvester Shchedrin studied at the Academy. His teachers included the watercolorist Mikhail Matveyevich Ivanov, the painter Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev, and the French draftsman and architect Jean-François Thomas de Thomon.
In 1811, the artist presented his graduation work “View of Petrovsky Island in St. Petersburg” and received a gold medal. In 1818, Sylvester Shchedrin became one of the first recipients of a pension from the Imperial Academy of Arts and was sent to Italy. He embarked on his first trip to Naples in 1819 and settled there permanently in 1825.
The collection of the Pskov Museum includes three paintings by Sylvester Shchedrin: “Waterfall in Tivoli. At the Temple of Vesta”, “Italian Motif. Amalfi” (1826–1827) and watercolor “View near Sorrento” (1825).
The painting “Waterfall in Tivoli. At the Temple of Vesta” was painted in 1821–1823 and transferred to Pskov from the State Russian Museum in 1930.
In one of his letters from Italy, Sylvester
Shchedrin wrote,
