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  • Anthelme-François Lagrenée

    French painter, miniaturist. Son of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée. Studied under François-André Vincent. Contributed to the Paris Salon (1799–1831). Lived and worked in Russia (1817–25).

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  • Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

    French painter, teacher. Father of Anthelme-François Lagrenée. Known as Lagrenée l'aîné, to distinguish him from his younger brother, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée. Studied under Carlo Vanloo and won the Pri...

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  • Fyodor Rokotov

    Painter, teacher. Born in the village of Vorontsovo to a family of serfs belonging to Prince Pyotr Repnin (mid-1730s). Believed to have trained under icon-painters in Moscow. Moved to St Petersburg (...

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  • Pietro Antonio de Rotari

    Italian painter, engraver, teacher. Studied under Robert van Auden Aerd and Antonio Balestra in Verona (1723–25), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Johan Richter in Venice (1725–27), Francesco Trevisan...

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  • Alexei Antropov

    Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg (1716) to Pyotr Antropov, who worked for the Chancellery of Construction. Studied under Louis Caravaque, Andrei Matveyev and Mikhail Zakharov (from 1732). Work...

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  • Dmitry Levitsky

    Painter, teacher. Born in Kiev (1735) to Ukrainian priest and engraver Grigory Nos-Levitsky (1697–1769). Moved to St Petersburg (1758) and studied under Alexei Antropov (1758–64), whom he possibly he...

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  • Johann Friedrich Grooth

    German painter, teacher. Youngest son of Johann Christoph Grooth (1688–1764), court painter to the duke of Württemberg and curator of the royal picture gallery in Stuttgart. Younger brother of Georg ...

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  • Georg Christoph Grooth

    German painter. Eldest son of Johann Christoph Grooth (1688–1764), court painter to the duke of Württemberg and curator of the royal picture gallery in Stuttgart. Known as “Kleine Grooth,” because of...

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  • Nikolai Argunov

    Painter. Son of Ivan Argunov. Studied art under his father and copied West European paintings in the Hermitage. Freed from serfdom (1816). Academician (1818). Painted miniature portraits.

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  • Ivan Argunov

    Painter, teacher. Father of Nikolai, Jacob and Pavel Argunov. Serf of Prince Alexei Cherkassky, grand chancellor and one of the richest men in Russia. Sold to Count Pyotr Sheremetev as part of the do...

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