Artist
Pavel Petrovich Svinin
Russian, 1787–1839
Pavel Petrovich Svinin was a Russian Romanticism painter. 24 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.
Black Methodists Holding a Prayer Meeting
A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, near Havre de Grace
Moravian Sisters
View on the Hudson River (Copy after Engraving by Weld and S. Springsguth in Weld, Travels Through the States of North America, 1807)
A View of the Potomac at Harpers Ferry
The Falls of the Schuylkill and Chain Bridge
Pavel Petrovich Svinyin or Svinin (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Свиньи́н; 19 June 1787 – 21 April 1839) was a Russian writer, painter, and editor, known as a "Russian Munchausen" for many exaggerated accounts of his travels. He was Appolon Maykov's brother-in-law and Aleksey Pisemsky's father-in-law.
Works by Pavel Petrovich Svinin
- Black Methodists Holding a Prayer Meeting
- A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, near Havre de Grace
- Moravian Sisters
- View on the Hudson River (Copy after Engraving by Weld and S. Springsguth in Weld, Travels Through the States of North America, 1807)
- A View of the Potomac at Harpers Ferry
- The Falls of the Schuylkill and Chain Bridge
Replenishing the Ship's Larder with Codfish off the Newfoundland Coast
Upper Falls of Solomon's Creek (after an Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, December 1809)
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