Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg

Painter, draughtsman, etcher, teacher, restorer. Son of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, cousin of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg. Studied art at home and in the Reformed Church School in St Petersburg. Took drawing lessons from Alexander Agin (1848–52) and studied painting under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1852–57, 1860–61) and Thomas Couture in Paris (1857–60). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Munich (1862–65). Taught at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1865–67) and the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (1885–1913). Academician (1867). Took part in Ivan Zabelin’s archaeological excavations on the Taman Peninsula (1869, 1871). Founding member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870). Worked as a restorer of paintings at the Imperial Hermitage (1895–1914). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1855). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–87) and the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1871–1915).