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Polish painter, draughtsman, theatrical designer. Born to dragoon officer Hipolit Siemiradzki and his wife Michalina in the town of Novo-Belgorod (now Pechenegi) in the Ukraine (1843). Attended the Se...
Sculptor, graphic artist, illustrator, painter. Studied battle painting under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1852–58). Awarded a minor silver medal (1852), major silver ...
Swiss painter, engraver. Worked in Paris and Bonneville. Contributed lithographs to Giuseppe Daziaro’s series of views of Moscow and St Petersburg. Lithographed the drawings of Vasily Sadovnikov and ...
French lithographer. Worked in Russia (1840s). Contributed lithographs to The Imperial Hermitage Gallery (1846), Lithographed Etchings of the Frescoes in St Isaac’s Cathedral in St Petersburg (1847) ...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Father of French lithographer Louis-Jules Arnout (1814–1868). Studied in Dijon and Paris. One of the first French professional lithographers. Worked in Joseph L...
French landscape architect, engraver. Worked in Paris (1830s–50s). Lithographed views of St Petersburg drawn by Russian and foreign artists. Contributed to series of views of Moscow and St Petersburg...
French painter, lithographer. Studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Lithographed landscapes and architectural views painted by himself and other artists. Contributed to many illustrated publications ...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Son of the engraver Jean Adam. Studied at the École des beaux-arts and in the studios of Charles Meynier and Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1814–18). Worked at the Pal...
French draughtsman, engraver. Active in the early nineteenth century. Visited Russia (c. 1812), where he drew a series of portraits of the heroes of the Patriotic War (1812).
Engraver, draughtsman, painter, teacher. Studied painting under Mikhail Ivanov and Semyon Schedrin (1785–99) and engraving under Sergei Ivanov and Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1799–1800) at the Imperial ...