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Nikolai Argunov
Born:
1771, St Petersburg
Died:
After 1829
Painter. Son of Ivan Argunov. Studied art under his father and copied West European paintings in the Hermitage. Freed from serfdom (1816). Academician (1818). Painted miniature portraits.
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