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From Russian nobility, Pavel Svinin studied art in Moscow and in St. Petersburg at the Academy of Fine Arts where he was also a member. He entered the foreign service and came to America in 1811 as secretary to the Russian Consul-General, who was based in Philadelphia.
Svinin stayed in the United States for two years, traveling and painting from Maine to Virginia. He did numerous watercolor scenes including the Hudson River Valley, fifty which are in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. R (showing 500 of 790 characters). |
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