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Painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Grandson of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, son of Major Alexander Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew onc...
Painter, draughtsman, etcher, teacher, restorer. Son of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, cousin of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg....
Painter, teacher. Son of the wood engraver Baron Konstantin Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, cousin of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle once rem...
Sculptor, teacher. Father of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, grandfather of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg. Born in S...
Painter, teacher. Elder brother of the revolutionary Pavel Jacoby (1842–1913). Studied at Kazan Grammar School and Kazan University and enlisted in the Simbirsk Home Guard during the Crimean War (185...
Painter, teacher. Born to German parents in Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia (1850). Studied under Constantin von Kügelgen in Dorpat (1866–67) and under Sokrat Vorobyov and Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich...
Painter, graphic artist. Father of Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz. Graduated from the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1854) and moved to St Petersburg (1857), where he painted commissions for th...
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Added the epithet “Kavkazsky” (“of the Caucasus”) to his surname to distinguish himself from other artists called Dmitriyev. Studied engraving under Fyodo...
Polish painter, teacher. Studied under Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class (1877–78), under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1879–85) and at Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant’s s...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Felix Lagorio (1781–1857), vice-consul of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Theodosia (1826). Studied under Hovhannes Aivazovsky in Theodosia (1839–40) and unde...