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Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, teacher. Studied under Alexander Warnek at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1833–39). Awarded a minor silver medal (1835) and the title of free non-class...
Polish draughtsman, lithographer, painter, illustrator. Born to the family of an inn-keeper in Warsaw (1777). Studied under Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Marcello Bacciarelli, Bartolomeo Folli...
Painter. Born to a family of Baltic Germans in Reval (1802). Worked as an assistant to George Dawe, helping him to paint the portraits for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace (1822–28). Studied ...
Swedish painter, engraver. Born to the family of a customs scribe in Varberg (1748). Studied under S. Frick in Gothenburg, where he was a member of the Society of Painters. Lived and worked in Riga (...
Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, interior designer, architect, teacher. Born in Moscow to a furniture supplier called Ignaty Nivinsky (1880). Studied at the Stroganov Centra...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in Simferopole to a veteran of the Crimean War called Stepan Stepanov (1858). Lost his parents at an early age and sent to the Nicholas Institute f...
Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Studied painting under Konstantin Korovin, Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Scherbinovsky at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1901–07) and Ab...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, designer, teacher. Born in the family of a railway worker in Kursk (1899). Studied under Alexander Lyubimov at the Kharkiv School of Art (1914–18), served with the ...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born to a family of peasant icon-painters in the village of Prislonikha (1893). Studied religion at Simbirsk Theological College (1903–08) and Simbirsk Religious...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, architect. Studied painting under Abram Arkhipov and Konstantin Korovin (1903–10) and architecture (1910–15) at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture ...