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Painter, lithographer. Worked for the Irkutsk provincial government (1850–55). Studied history painting under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–63). Awarded minor silver medals (185...
Painter, teacher. Born to a family of gold panners at Uktussky Zavod near Ekaterinburg (1835). Painted icons for the local Church of the Transfiguration and portraits of relatives (1840s). Worked at ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Father of Pyotr Petrovich Zabolotsky. Studied under Alexander Warnek and Alexei Yegorov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1826–31). Awarded a minor silver medal (1829), ...
Painter. Son of Pyotr Yefimovich Zabolotsky. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–66). Awarded minor silver medals (1859, 1860, 1863) and major silver medals (1859, 1861). One of the rebelli...
Painter, lithographer, teacher. Studied history painting under Timoleon Carl von Neff, Fidelio Bruni and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–63). Awarded minor silver medals (1858, 18...
French engraver. Son of a hairdresser who was brought up in poverty by his widowed mother. Studied under Antoine Hérisset and Nicolas Henri Tardieu in Paris (from 1721). Engraved the drawings of Jean...
French engraver, painter. Born to a family of ornamental sculptors and gilders in Metz (1734). Studied under François Boucher in Paris (from 1750). Married a much older woman (1752) and allegedly fle...
German engraver. Studied under Johann Georg Wolfgang in Berlin. Worked in Berlin, Kassel, Leipzig and Dresden, engraving portraits of Landgrave Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, King Augustus II of Po...
Painter, writer. Born into a wealthy family of the Ukrainian nobility in the village of Havrontsi near Poltava (1858). Lived abroad with her mother after her parents divorced, visiting Austria, Germa...
Estonian painter, decorator, teacher. Born at the Russian naval base of Kronstadt (1812) to Admiral Otto Anton von Möller (1764–1848) and his wife Julianne Charlotte Elisabeth von Nolcken (1787–1873)...