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Italian theatrical designer. Father of the architect Geronimo Corsini (1808–1876). Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. Moved to St Petersburg (1802), where he worked for the Imperial T...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Worked at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (1808–13) and General Headquarters (1822–28). Took up lithography (1816). Collaborated with Karl Friedrich Sabbath on t...
German painter, draughtsman, engraver, decorator. Moved to St Petersburg (1810), where he worked as an actor and singer (from 1810) and painted sets (from 1815) at the Deutsches Theater. Collaborated...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Moved to St Petersburg to work with his uncle Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1803). Taught drawing and lit...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Son of the German pianist and composer Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner (1766–1839), nephew of the composer Josef Alois Ladurner (1769–1851). Studied under Hor...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Son of French customs official Victor Perrot. Studied at naval college in Brest and under Théodore Gudin in Paris. Published more than three-hundred lithographed v...
Painter, draughtsman. Serf of Princess Natalia Golitsyna, who was granted his freedom after her death (1837). Painted a fifty-foot panorama of Nevsky Prospekt for local publisher André Prévost (1830–...
German painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin and under Paul Delaroche in Paris (1839–40). Visited Italy (1841) and Danzig (1842). Drew port...
Belgian painter. Lived and worked as a portraitist in Russia (late 1840s–early 1850s). Academician (1850).
German medallist, coin engraver. Son of the glass-cutter Ignaz Gube. Studied in Vienna and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin. Elected a member of the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Kün...