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Painter. Studied miniature painting at the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris (1766–73). Painter to Queen Marie Antoinette (1776), member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1788). Fled t...
Painter, mosaic artist. Serf of Count Ivan Kuleshev. Born to Yegor Rayev and Pelageya Yemelianova in the village of Volok in Pskov Province (1808). Studied under Alexander Stupin at the Arzamas Schoo...
Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of an impoverished serf in Dorpat in Estonia (1811). Freed from serfdom (1816) and studied at the Alexander I Grammar School of Dorpat University (1827–29), w...
Painter. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1833–35). Awarded a minor silver medal (1834) and a major silver medal and the title of non-class artist (1835). Commissioned by Charles Vane, 3rd Ma...
Amateur artist, art historian, curator, collector, teacher. Father of Konstantin Somov and Anna Somova-Mikhailova. Attended the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists while...
Porcelain artist, theatrical designer, graphic artist, illustrator, painter. Born Alexandra Schekatikhina in the town of Alexandrovsk in the Ukraine (1892). Graduated from grammar school in Alexandro...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, illustrator, decorator, teacher. Born in the village of Tarkhovka near St Petersburg to naval surgeon Jacob Bilibin and his wife Varvara Bubnova (1876). ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in Moscow (1865). Son of Russian composer Alexander Serov (1820–1871) and German pianist Valentina Bergman (1846–1924). Attend...
Painter, engraver, applied artist, illustrator. Sister-in-law of Vasily Polenov. Born in Wiesbaden to Russian merchant and collector Vasily Yakunchikov and his wife Zinaida Mamontova (1870). Took pri...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, furniture designer, interior decorator, illustrator. Born in Moscow to a priest called Jacob Golovin, who served at the Church of the Annunciation on the...