Nikolay Gustavovich Shilder (also: ''Nikolai Schilder'', ; 1828 - ,

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) was a Russian painter. Member of the

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Biography

Schilder was born to a

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father. When Pavel Tretyakov bought his painting '' The Temptation'' in 1856, it marked the start of his collection (together with Vasili Khudyakov's '' The Smugglers'') which later turned into the

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.Pravda, "170th anniversary of the birth of the Tretyakov Picture Gallery founder", 27 December 2002
retrieved on 1 October 2006. Shilder graduated from the

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. He became an academician of the Academy in 1861. Under the influence of Pavel Fedotov he painted a series of paintings devoted to the life of ordinary people. The most notable are The Temptation (1856) that started the Tretyakov Gallery and the Forced Marriage (now in the

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, Saint Peterburg). He also painted ceremonial portraits including the portrait of tsar

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Works

Image:Shilder Temptation.jpg, The Temptation (1857) Шильдер Николай Густавович - Сговор невесты (1859).jpg, Wedding collusion (1859) Image:М. Шыльдэр. Расплата з крэдыторамі.JPG, Payback to creditors Image:Shilder AlexanderIII.jpg, Alexander III Image:Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder by N.Shilder (1870s, Museum of Artillery etc).jpg, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Шильдер Николай Густавович - Императрица Мария Фёдоровна.jpg,

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) Maria Feodorovna (; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of ...

References

Literary sources

External links

Nikolay Shilder in the Large Soviet Encyclopedia

About ''The Temptation''
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Male painters from the Russian Empire 1828 births 1898 deaths 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire {{Russia-painter-stub