Pavel Dmitrievitsch Schipov (1860-1919) - Soldatenportrait Russisches Imperium

Portrait of a soldier of the Russian Guards Infantry Division

Antique museum mixed-media painting
from the Russian Empire painter Pavel Dmitrievich Schipov
signed and dated 1916

Pavel Schipov painted portraits and paintings for the family
of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. One of them is the famous image:
Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich (1868–1918) at maneuvers near the village of Bolshaya Verdada, 1893.
The image is in the Moscow State Historical Museum.
Many of Schipov's paintings were in Tsarskoye Selo at the headquarters
and in the house of Tsar Nicholas II. (see the last image).

Pavel Dmitrievich Schipov (October 9, 1860 – July 23, 1919) — Lieutenant General, Russian artist, master of military portraiture. Participant in the First World War. Married, 2 daughters (as of November 1, 1907). Executed by the Bolsheviks (according to other sources, shot in 1923). Orthodox. From the noble family of the Kostroma province. He received his education in 1883 in the Page Corps (1st category, in the Preobrazhensky Regiment). Warrant officer (August 12, 1883), Second Lieutenant (August 12, 1884), Lieutenant (December 8, 1887), Headquarters Captain (August 31, 1894), Captain (December 6, 1899), (unclear phrasing here) Captain (December 6, 1899), Major (August 31, 1894), Lieutenant Colonel (December 12, 1899), Colonel with insignia 17 August 1904 (1905), Adjutant to Oppuilding (1908), SVITA Major General (May 6, 1913), Lieutenant General from April 23, 1915 (October 10, 1915) Company commander - 7 l. 6 m, commander of the 6 m Battalion, commander of the 22nd East Siberian Rifle Regiment and then the 11th East Siberian Rifle Regiment. Participant in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Commander of the 21st East Siberian Rifle Regiment (September 3, 1909) in the retinue (October 2, 1909). Participant in the World War I. Commander of the 1st Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division (December 10, 1914). Commander of the 74th Infantry Division (February 12, 1914 – May 29, 1917), in the rank reserve at the Kyiv Military District HQ (May 29, 1917 – ?). He was awarded the Order of St. Anna 3rd class (with swords and bow), the Order of St. George 4th class, the Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class (with swords), the Order of St. Vladimir 4th class (with swords and bow), the Order of St. Anna 1st class (with swords), and the Gold Sword “For Courage.”
He studied at the Academy of Arts. He painted portraits of soldiers and observed them both in battles and in leisure. He drew pencil sketches and watercolor portraits.
One of the main representatives of Russian military portraiture.

Signature: П. Шипов 1916 (P. Schipov 1916)
Graphite drawing on carton (graphite pencil, watercolor, gouache) under glass with original wooden frame.
Dimensions with frame: 35 x 44 cm. Drawing without frame: 18 x 23 cm
Condition: In used good condition with small age-related traces
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