Patersen Benjamin, (1750-1810), Artist

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PATERSEN Benjamin (1750-1810, St. Petersburg) Swedish artist, water colour painter and engraver. He received his artistic education in Goteborg. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1786. He executed over 100 pictorial and graphic architectural cityscapes of the capital in which he embodied the view of the city between the 18th and 19th centuries with documental exactness and lyricism, View from Kamenny Island facing Novaya Derevnya, 1801; View on Kamennoostrovsky Palace, 1804; Neva Embankment with the view on the Tauride Palace, 1804; all are painted in oils on canvas and held in the State Russian Museum. The print Fontanka River Embankment near Anichkov Palace is exhibited in the State Hermitage. In addition he also painted portraits. He was buried at Tentelevskoe Cemetery (the tombstone has not survived).

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Patersen Benjamin
Tauride Palace
Anichkov Palace
Russian Museum, State
Hermitage
Hermitage