An antique 19th century Russian oil on board painting depicting a horse standing in a landscape. Signed in Cyrillic, N. Sverchkov, lower left. Framed. This painting was sold on November 19th, 2011 at Gene Shapiro Auctions for $10,000-$15,000. Note: Nikolai Sverchkov is known for Animal scenes and folk genre painting and lithographs. Nikolai Yegorovich Sverchkov was a Russian painter and engraver. Sverchkovs Return From the Bear Hunt, exhibited in 1863, was bought by Napoleon III. For this and two other paintings, The Fair and The Station, Sverchkov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. Returning to Petersburg from abroad in 1864, Sverchkov painted The Turn out of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich on the Military Parade of 1664 for Alexander II. An animal painter, Sverchkov started his creative work at the Khrenovskiy and Chesmenskiy state stud farms. In 1844 Sverchkov did several lithographs, and by the end of 1840s he had painted three portraits. One of a kind artwork.