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Painter, draughtsman. Serf of Princess Natalia Golitsyna, who was granted his freedom after her death (1837). Painted a fifty-foot panorama of Nevsky Prospekt for local publisher André Prévost (1830–...
German painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin and under Paul Delaroche in Paris (1839–40). Visited Italy (1841) and Danzig (1842). Drew port...
Belgian painter. Lived and worked as a portraitist in Russia (late 1840s–early 1850s). Academician (1850).
German medallist, coin engraver. Son of the glass-cutter Ignaz Gube. Studied in Vienna and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin. Elected a member of the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Kün...
French engraver. Younger brother of the engraver Charles Dupuis (1685–1742). Studied under Gaspard Duchange, whose daughter he later married (1737). Member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sc...
Austrian painter, engraver. Studied sculpture and painting in childhood and took private lessons from Friedrich Rottmann and Jakob Wilhelm Roux while he was a student at Heidelberg University. Studie...
French painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Lived in London (1792–95) and visited Russia (1796–98). Worked in Russia (until 1828), where he published an album of drawings now in the department of priv...
French draughtsman, engraver, painter. Studied painting under Jacques-Louis David in Paris. Worked in Moscow and St Petersburg (1792–1805), where he drew views of Russian towns and scenes from Russia...
French painter, engraver. Studied under Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris. Joined the French army, but was injured and captured by Russian forces during the Patriotic War (1812). Decided to remain in Russia...
French painter, draughtsman. Studied under Achille-Etna Michallon at the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (early 1820s). Worked in Russia (1835–73), where he witnessed the fire at the Winter Palace (...