The painting “A Pond in the Forest” is attributed to Semyon Fedorovich Fedorov.
The artist was born in 1867 into a peasant family. After joining the military service, he continued his amateur painting career. The president of the Academy of Arts, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, played a prominent role in the life and future career of the artist, as he once happened to see some of Fedorov’s paintings. Having appreciated the remarkable works of the artist, the Grand Duke ordered his resignation from service and his enrollment at the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student in the studio of the renowned Russian landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. This opened up wide prospects for Semyon Fedorovich and influenced his later life, which he irrevocably dedicated to painting.
Having completed his studies at the Academy, the artist created etudes in plein air at the Siverskaya railway station, in the vicinity of the Valaam Monastery, as well as in Finland and Nizhny Novgorod. In the 1890s, Fedorov studied at the workshop of Professor Julius Yulievich Klever, and for a while lived and worked in the capital. The artist took part in the battles of the Russian-Japanese war, where he was seriously wounded and died of his wounds in Nizhny Novgorod in 1910.
At present his paintings are housed in many renowned museums and private collections throughout Russia. Semyon Fedorovich Fedorov was a talented landscapist, a master of forest summer and winter landscapes filled with the lifeblood of rivers and streams.
“A Pond in the Forest” belongs to this kind of landscape sketches. The work is painted in the traditions of the Russian school of painting. The influence of his teachers — Shishkin and Klever — can be felt most strongly in his subtle and remarkably harmonious depiction of various plant forms and scenery.
It is known that “A Pond in the Forest” belonged to Pavel Nikanorovich Yakovlev, a famous plant breeder, member of Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a student and closest follower of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Various works by Fedorov were exhibited at various auctions several times, at prices ranging from $4,478 to $109,779 — since 2009, this is the record price for paintings by the artist at an auction.
The artist was born in 1867 into a peasant family. After joining the military service, he continued his amateur painting career. The president of the Academy of Arts, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, played a prominent role in the life and future career of the artist, as he once happened to see some of Fedorov’s paintings. Having appreciated the remarkable works of the artist, the Grand Duke ordered his resignation from service and his enrollment at the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student in the studio of the renowned Russian landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. This opened up wide prospects for Semyon Fedorovich and influenced his later life, which he irrevocably dedicated to painting.
Having completed his studies at the Academy, the artist created etudes in plein air at the Siverskaya railway station, in the vicinity of the Valaam Monastery, as well as in Finland and Nizhny Novgorod. In the 1890s, Fedorov studied at the workshop of Professor Julius Yulievich Klever, and for a while lived and worked in the capital. The artist took part in the battles of the Russian-Japanese war, where he was seriously wounded and died of his wounds in Nizhny Novgorod in 1910.
At present his paintings are housed in many renowned museums and private collections throughout Russia. Semyon Fedorovich Fedorov was a talented landscapist, a master of forest summer and winter landscapes filled with the lifeblood of rivers and streams.
“A Pond in the Forest” belongs to this kind of landscape sketches. The work is painted in the traditions of the Russian school of painting. The influence of his teachers — Shishkin and Klever — can be felt most strongly in his subtle and remarkably harmonious depiction of various plant forms and scenery.
It is known that “A Pond in the Forest” belonged to Pavel Nikanorovich Yakovlev, a famous plant breeder, member of Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a student and closest follower of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Various works by Fedorov were exhibited at various auctions several times, at prices ranging from $4,478 to $109,779 — since 2009, this is the record price for paintings by the artist at an auction.
