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Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born to icon-painter Kornilo Pymonenko in the suburb of Pryorka in Kiev (1862). Helped his father to decorate local churches and trained in an icon-painting studio a...
Estonian engraver, illustrator, painter. Born in the family of a Swedish stonemason in the town of Wesenberg (now Rakvere) in Estonia (1800). Moved to St Petersburg and enrolled at the Imperial Acade...
Engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Studied under Baron Konstantin Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1838–43), graduating with the title of teacher of drawing (1843). Contributed wor...
Draughtsman, illustrator, painter, teacher. Illegitimate son of officer and landowner Alexei Yelagin and a serf woman who took the last four letters of his father’s surname. Born in the village of Iv...
Draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, painter. Born in the village of Korbulaki in Saratov Province (1819). Moved with his family to St Petersburg (1822). Studied under Alexei Yegorov (1830s) and u...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Polish orientalist Józef Kowalewski (1801–1878). Studied battle painting under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1863–71). Awarded ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Ekaterinodar to Cossack general Sysoi Kosolap (1834). Studied at the Pavel Military Academy and fought in the Crimean War (1853–56). Awarded a stipend by the Ku...
French draughtsman, lithographer. Travelled across Russia, sailing via Le Havre, Hamburg and Lübeck and visiting Kronstadt, St Petersburg, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir, Nizhny Novg...
Swiss engraver, painter. Son of Gabriel I Ludwig Lory. Worked with his father for thirteen years in an identical manner, making the works of both artists indiscernible, as they signed them with the s...
Swiss engraver, painter. Son of a coachman, father of Matthias Gabriel Lory. Studied under Johann Ludwig Aberli and Caspar Wolf. Visited Geneva and St Gallen. Returned to Berne, where he coloured the...