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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, applied artist, illustrator, writer, teacher. Studied under Vasily Belyaev and Hugo Salemann at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1914–18) and unde...
English painter, draughtsman, engraver. Brother-in-law of George Dawe. Served as an apprentice under Henry Meyer and as an assistant to William Thomas Fry (1813–17). Worked independently as a stipple...
English painter, draughtsman. Brother-in-law of Thomas Wright. Son of the engraver Philip Dawe, who worked with William Hogarth and Joseph Mallord William Turner. Studied engraving under his father a...
Painter. Born in Moscow (1927) and showed an early interest in painting (mid-1940s). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–46), Vasily Surikov School of Art (1946) an...
English painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator. Moved to St Petersburg (1784) with his uncle, the engraver James Walker, who was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great. Painted Russian history...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born to a poor Jewish family in the town of Kybartai near Kovno in Lithuania (1860). Moved with his family to Moscow (1870). Studied under Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Po...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a carpenter called Vasily Kliunkov in Vladimir Province (1873). Worked alongside his father at a sugar refinery in Ramon in Voronezh ...
Painter, writer, poet, playwright, aviator. Father of Alexei Kamensky. Born on the River Kama on a steamer captained by his father Gavriil Serebrennikov (1884). Grew up in the village of Borovskoe in...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Konstantinidi Vasilketi, a Greek émigré from Santorini who fled to Russia after his island was invaded by the Turks. Worked in a grocery store and a wine-cellar ...
Painter, sculptor, colour-music theorist, inventor, teacher. Born Shulim Wolf Leib Baranov to Jewish merchant David Baranov and his wife Rosalia in the Pale of Settlement (1888). Studied under Kyriak...