Arseny Ivanovich Meshchersky. Russian painter, a characteristic master of academic landscape of the second half of the 19th century, known for his depictions of the nature of southern and northern Russia, the Crimea and the Caucasus. He was a student of the landscape painter Alexander Kalam, from whom he borrowed techniques and then developed his own style of landscape painting. He considered himself a ‘draughtsman’ of nature. In 1854-1857 he was a free student at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under F. A. Bruni, S. M. Vorobyov,... далее

Arseny Ivanovich Meshchersky. Russian painter, a characteristic master of academic landscape of the second half of the 19th century, known for his depictions of the nature of southern and northern Russia, the Crimea and the Caucasus. He was a student of the landscape painter Alexander Kalam, from whom he borrowed techniques and then developed his own style of landscape painting. He considered himself a ‘draughtsman’ of nature. In 1854-1857 he was a free student at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under F. A. Bruni, S. M. Vorobyov, T. A. Neff. In 1857 the Academy awarded Meshchersky a large silver medal for his painting ‘Morning in the vicinity of Friedrichsgamen’. Also in the same year, he left the walls of the Academy and at the expense of his high-ranking patron travelled to Switzerland to improve his painting, where he studied at the popular landscape painter Alexander Kalam. For the picture ‘Swiss View’ presented at the Academic Exhibition in 1859 in Switzerland, he received a large gold medal, the title of class artist and the right to a foreign pension. In 1860 he went to Switzerland again at public expense, making this journey through the Crimea to Turkey, Greece and Italy. After living there for four years, in 1864 on the frigate ‘Alexander Nevsky’ made a voyage to the Cape Verde Islands. Returning home, he lived in St. Petersburg, occasionally visiting Finland, the Baltic States and the Caucasus. Later he was widely recognised both in Russia and abroad. Meshchersky's works are exhibited in the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. скрыть