• Russian: Степан Семёнович Щукин was was a Russian portrait and watercolor painter.
• Some sources give his year of birth as 1762.
• He was the son of an army sergeant and was apparently abandoned by his family.
• In 1782, he was sent abroad for "self-improvement", changed his name from Semyonov to Shchukin.
• He spent some time at the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, where he studied with Alexandre Roslin and Joseph-Benoît Suvée.
• In 1786, he returned from Paris and, two years later, was appointed a teacher of portraiture at the Academy.
• He was promoted to Academician Candidate for his portrait of the Academy's Director Yury Felten then, the following year, was named a full Academician for his portrait of Tsar Paul I.
• In 1803, he was appointed a Counselor and, a few months thereafter, became Secretary of the Academic Conference.
• Among his best-known students were Alexander Varnek and Vasily Tropinin.
