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Carl Peter Mazér (9 March 1807,Stockholm – 27 July 1884,Naples) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, and photographer.
His father, Jean-Pierre Mazér (died 1829), was a silk weaver and stocking maker, originally from France.Johan Mazer, a noted merchant and musician, was his half-brother from his father's first marriage. At an early age, he became interested in painting, and was able to study withGustaf Erik Hasselgren at theRoyal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1825, he accompanied his father to Paris and took lessons fromAntoine-Jean Gros; becoming his assistant and helping to paint the backgrounds on historical scenes.
During theJuly Revolution of 1830, he manned the barricades. From 1833 to 1835, he was in Italy, then returned to Sweden. His first exhibition, of twenty-five paintings, took place at the Royal Academy in 1836.
In 1837, he spent some time in Finland, then went toSaint Petersburg. He would eventually spend fifteen years in Russia; living in Moscow andYaroslavl, where he worked as a drawing teacher. He also travelled in barges down theVolga, fromNizhny Novgorod toAstrakhan, making sketches. His best known work from that period is a posthumous portrait ofAlexander Pushkin, commissioned byPavel Nashchokin [ru], a close friend of Pushkin's and a noted art collector. In 1848, he visited Siberia, where he created a series of portraits of the revolutionaries who had been exiled there. InTobolsk, when he attempted to paint a group portrait ofAlexander Muravyov [ru] and his family, the police stopped him and sent him out of the city,[1]
At the beginning of 1851, he opened adaguerreotype studio in Moscow, where he worked until the end of 1852; making copies of art works as well as taking portrait photographs. After returning to Stockholm in 1854, he had difficulty making a living from his art, and became exclusively involved with photography; creating a professional manual in 1864. He moved to Paris in 1876. After staying there for two years, he moved to Naples, where he died in 1884, aged seventy-six.
His works may be seen at theState Historical Museum, theState Literary Museum [ru], and theHermitage, as well as several smaller ones. His unpublished memoirs and other manuscripts are in the collection of theNationalmuseum, Stockholm.[2]
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