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French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Worked at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (1808–13) and General Headquarters (1822–28). Took up lithography (1816). Collaborated with Karl Friedrich Sabbath on t...
German painter, draughtsman, engraver, decorator. Moved to St Petersburg (1810), where he worked as an actor and singer (from 1810) and painted sets (from 1815) at the Deutsches Theater. Collaborated...
German engraver. Uncle of Carl Kollmann. Studied engraving under his father Johann Klauber in Augsburg, in Rome and under Johann Georg Wille in Paris (1780s). Member of the Académie de peinture et de...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Moved to St Petersburg to work with his uncle Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1803). Taught drawing and lit...
Dutch engraver, cartographer. Studied engraving under Romeyn de Hooghe (1676–79). Taught etching to Peter the Great during his Great Embassy to Holland (1697) and was invited to Russia to work on com...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Son of the German pianist and composer Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner (1766–1839), nephew of the composer Josef Alois Ladurner (1769–1851). Studied under Hor...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Son of French customs official Victor Perrot. Studied at naval college in Brest and under Théodore Gudin in Paris. Published more than three-hundred lithographed v...
English engraver, draughtsman. Father of Thomas Malton the Younger (1748–1804). Worked in London, where he engraved aquatint views of St Petersburg (1798–90) after the drawings of Joseph Hearn, who l...
Slovenian scholar. Attended schools in Semi?, Novo Mesto, Prague and Sušak. Lived and worked in Russia (1908–17), where he joined the Slavophile movement and befriended Mikhail Le-Dantiu and Velimir ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, art theorist. Descended from Camille Ledentu, a Frenchwoman who followed her Decembrist lover Vladimir Ivashev into exile in Siberia. Son of...