# SHCHEDRIN, Feodosy Fyodorovich [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1751–1825 - Profession: sculptor - School: Russian ## Biography Russian sculptor. The son of an Imperial Guardsman, he studied from 1764 to 1772 at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Nicolas-François Gillet. After winning a scholarship he continued his training in France and Rome, including a period of study in Paris \(1775-84\) under Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain. Early in his career he progressed from a Baroque style \(e.g. Marsyas, bronze, 1776\) to a mixture of Baroque and classical \(e.g. Endymion Sleeping, bronze, 1779\), becoming predominantly Neo-classical only from the 1790s \(e.g. Venus, marble, 1792; all St Petersburg, Russian Museum\). His brother Semyon, and his son Sil'vestr were painters. ## Related artworks - [Caryatids]() - [Marsyas]() - [Venus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()